What has become weird to me as I've debated this is why the racism piece is important at all. It's not necessarily the root cause. Inappropriate use of violence on the part of police is the problem here, who cares what the motivation is, and who cares what race it's aimed at? If all lives truly mattered, then why does this have to be a race based discussion? Yes, yes, I know, #BLM....but we can have this discussion without them, and we still find the there is a problem of inappropriate force being used by cops. I promise you, if you fix that generally, all the black-specific stuff goes away.
Apply this logic to anything else. Let's take a car...you buy a car, you expect it to operate as advertised. If it turns out to be a lemon, you don't care if the guy working on the line that bungled it is a racist, or a communist, or whatever. You just want the car fixed. If you're attempting to fix the problem in the plant, you don't care why the guy made the mistake. You either fix your process, or fire the guy if it fails to improve. And if that lemon of a car results in the death of one of your family, you're going after the manufacturer for everything you can get.
Why different with cops? You pay for them too...
It's important to acknowledge and defeat racism for all kinds of reasons, in all sorts of conversations. But it's not vital to this one. If #AllLivesMatter is actually a thing, that is......