Rayshard Brooks comes to mind. Summer 2020 in Atlanta. He falls asleep in his car in Wendy's drive-thru. They call the cops. He's been drinking. Upon being woken up, he's all compliant, then when the cops tell him they're taking him in, he gets argumentative, and belligerent. The cop pulls his taser, and Brooks struggles with him for it. They end up on the ground. Brooks takes the cops taser and runs with it, firing it at the officer as he goes. The officer shoots Brooks as he's fleeing.
Rioters burned down the Wendy's. The female Chief of Police resigned as the police department experienced a severe case of "blue flu" when they heard the cops involved were going to be charged. The officer who shot Brooks was jailed and immediately terminated. His defense attorney got him out on bail, then went to court to get him his job back. The Civil Service Board said he'd been wrongfully terminated him and reinstated him. The prosecutor who was supposed to try the case lost his re-election bid, and a special prosecutor was assigned. As of March this year, that special prosecutor has retired, and no prosecution of the officer has yet occurred. The case is still in limbo.
In my view, such stories demonstrate that we are at a "tipping point" - that our society / the "System" is barely still functioning, but that it has nearly reached the point at which the Manichaean forces fighting for control will see power change hands.
Regards,
That female Chief of Police landed in my hometown of Louisville KY. (Yep that place where Breonna Taylor got used as a human shield by her BF who told cops at first SHE was the one shooting at cops but changed his story ‘cause I was scared’) Crime is at an all time high, we’re at at least 42 homicides already this yr, we had 188 last yr.