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We should be careful who we honor. It greatly devalues the truly marginalized.

Walter Wallace has many videos on youtube glorifying murdering people, including the police.

He was arrested multiple times with crimes that included threatening to "shoot up" neighbors homes, entering a woman's home and holding a gun to her head and punching a police officer in the face.

On the day the police showed up, he approach them with a knife. These officers knew Wallace - because they had been repeatedly called out there, by neighbors. Witnesses confirmed that the police repeatedly asked him to put down the knife and back away. He continued to approach with the knife when he was shot.

Danielle Outlaw stated that the witnesses on the scene (neighbors, mostly African American) did not question the police response. Later gatherings were largely white people (presumably from the suburbs).

I know people want to feel like they are doing a good thing by honoring this man, but they are not. There are true systemic problems of economy, opportunity, education and wealth that led to this situation that should be addressed. But calling the police racist and advocating to defund them will hurt these impoverished neighborhoods even more. It will not, of course, hurt the largely white upper middle class neighborhoods where is suspect a great number of these activists are from.

Using the "mental health crisis" argument is a straw man - do we honor the recently exposed pedophile at SCH due to his mental illness?

Lastly, the local should do a better job. They have an obligation - a duty - to not post a completely one-sided opinion that will ultimately do harm to race relations and stifle positive outcomes. Again, using the example above... if i were to write an article entitled "Honoring the SCH pedophile and his mental health crisis" i'm sure they would not post it.