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It's more difficult for the average cop to engage in hand-to-hand fighting with the average resister these days.  For one thing, cops carry a lot heavier load than they used to, more ammo, more comm gear, often including flak vests, so they are relatively slow and cumbersome compared to the guys they are trying to catch and arrest.
There are increasingly more female cops, and on average they are smaller and weaker than the males.  And they too are encumbered by the additional baggage that cops now carry.  I believe that I have seen some seemingly reliable studies showing that female cops are more likely to escalate a confrontation into a shootout.  Also, too bad about the facts of biology, females generally have less authoritative/intimidating voices than males do.
But, yeah, they do seem rather unversed in h-to-h tactics and techniques.  I've wondered why those Kenosha cops didn't just tackle that guy instead of letting him walk toward his car.

That gets to my fundamental view of these things: there is no simple solution. People who admit there is a real problem with systemic racism in this country will not immediately solve it. And well-meaning people who are trying to find solutions will make mistakes--and even good solutions will never be perfect for every situation. But it all has to start with admitting there is a problem; and part of admitting there is a problem is not blaming Black Lives Matter for highlighting the problem, but instead accepting that there is a very real, very current reason people are so angry.

Wanted on a warrant, physically resisted arrest, went for a weapon in his car. All three things led up to the result. Had he complied with the lawful orders of the police, he would not have been shot.

There is plenty of evidence that the disparities in outcomes between black and white people in the country is race-based. So much so that the point is essentially irrefutable in honest discourse.

The point about systemic racism isn't that in any one situation an overtly racist person commits a racist act (though in the George Floyd example a likely explanation is a person who isn't actively racist, but probably at least unconsciously so, committed a racist act). It is that the systemic problems we have not addressed led to a situation where, once again, the outcome is dire for a black person.

As I said (so many) pages back, this doesn't excuse lawbreaking, including resisting arrest, and it doesn't mean we should coddle people who have proven they are a threat to society. It does mean that we need an honest reckoning about race in America so that we can try to address it.

Cincy above noted some programs aimed at addressing historical inequities, like affirmative action. There is this strain of thinking that affirmative action (1) unfairly harmed white people (and men), and (2) that as a result, black people actually have an advantage in today's America (or 1980s/90s America). But for all that chatter, it would be difficult to find a white person who would voluntarily switch with a black person if that included all the other issues a black person faced in his or her life. And the research (and anecdotal evidence) on the black experience in America is that even with race-based quotas or even just preferences, black people continued to face much greater challenges to their success than white people. That doesn't mean white people don't also face challenges--we do. But the mere fact of being black adds significant challenges, even when coupled with affirmative action and programs of the like.

So why are we talking about this here? Rioting is not ok. Destroying people's property--or government property--is not ok. But labeling Black Lives Matter protesters as domestic terrorists because some people (including some white-supremacist agitators) infect their demonstrations feeds into the "everything is ok, there's no racism here" narrative, and attacks their idea--one that is hard to argue with honestly--that black people are still suffering from unfair policies. Responding that "All lives matter" is not ok. When people said "Vegas Strong," or "Boston Strong," the reaction wasn't, "No, America strong."

Earlier Kris, I think, suggested colorblindness. Read my farm example: is everything ok at the end?