Mark Holmberg - WTVR CBS 6 has an idea for ending police shootings that’s as simple as it is insulting: people should just learn to be well behaved so that cops won’t murder them. If for some reason you’ve always wanted to see a white man stand in front of an audience and present a patronizing Facebook status as though it was a policy solution, here are the details on where that will be going down:
Thursday, October 27th, from 12-1:30pm, at the Richmond Times Dispatch headquarters (300 East Franklin Street, Richmond VA), the paper is holding their 68th public square discussion. RTD columnist Mark Holmberg will propose his solution to the problem of police violence- an “increase in responsible behavior” he is calling the “Act Right Movement”- and three additional panelists will discuss it with him. Those panelists are local #BlackLivesMatter activist and educator Osita Iroegbu, Richmond Police Department Chief Alfred Durham, and Claire Gastanaga of the ACLU of Virginia.
Mark Holmburg outlines his “movement” in a September 2016 op ed you can read here: goo.gl/Bk8S6d. The highlights: police shootings are primarily the result of the victim’s behavior rather than officer misconduct, so if people just behaved themselves, police wouldn’t have to kill them. There is no race problem in America, just a poverty problem which is somehow not related to race. Talking about racism just gives Black kids “an excuse” to “feel like the victim.” In a somehow even worse op ed from July 2016 (goo.gl/w4TRe4), Holmberg flatly denied that police shootings have anything to do with race, wrung his hands about how “divisive” Black Lives Matter is, and finally declared that the movement against police shootings is actually responsible for as least as many deaths as killer cops.
Free, open to the public. Contact Robin Beres at 804-649-6305, or mberes@timesdispatch.com, for more information.
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