'We need radical shifts, we need transformation,' an activist tells NPR. 'These things don't happen through police taking a knee at protests and then right after ... getting up and tear gassing and rubber bulleting us.'
Ore., some officers have knelt in solidarity, and a few have even marched with protesters demanding police reforms.
Others, however, say they mark a potentially important opening: the start of a more substantive dialogue. "That moment was very powerful for me," Johnson says,"Like my eyes teared up. It was this moment of 'I'm with you. I feel your pain.' And maybe, even if not all the chiefs, you know, felt that way, I think that it was a moment of humility, of humanity. I think that's what made it powerful. I tried to embrace that moment because I'd never seen that happen.
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