Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, will discuss how, five years after police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in the streets of Minneapolis, police killings continue to rise year after year, reaching a record high in 2024. Love explains how increased police budgets, further militarization, and escalating repression of activists have fueled this trend, and breaks down what’s working (i.e. grassroots violence prevention) , what isn’t (i.e. relying on the democratic establishment), and why the state resists strategies that actually reduce police violence.