This perfectly encapsulates the flaw in the state calling for non-violence. Unless those same governors and police chiefs have previously been calling just as loud for non-violence against young black men at the hand of the state, their words should be dismissed whole-cloth and immediately. If the community wants to call for non-violence, fine. But the cops have nothing to say about it at this point imo. It's been open season on young black Americans (and other minorities) for too long. For the entire history of the United States, it's always been that way, and it never ceased or came anywhere close enough to ceasing.When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con.
I agree that it's disrespectful for the aggressor to call for nonviolence. Nonviolence needs to begin with an understanding of its importance by those being abused before it can become successfully implemented.