Thanks for your thoughtful piece about this tragedy. I too have seen police cars zooming down the walkways of Parc Elisabeth while people were walking there quietly with their kids and dogs, and it has made me think yet again about the unacceptable fact that the presence of the police usually feels more threatening than reassuring.
Unfortunately, I don’t see that change happening anytime soon. Public transport remains underfunded and the politicians in power praise cars over other methods of transportation. I’m not sure what it will take for change to happen much less for protest to happen, like the happened in Netherlands when there were massive protest and action taken against cars after cycling kids were killed by cars.
Well said.
Thanks for your thoughtful piece about this tragedy. I too have seen police cars zooming down the walkways of Parc Elisabeth while people were walking there quietly with their kids and dogs, and it has made me think yet again about the unacceptable fact that the presence of the police usually feels more threatening than reassuring.
Nothing justifies what happened to him.
It is completely unacceptable. And I agree with you, it is part of a wider car culture problem in Brussels that is only very slowly changing.
Unfortunately, I don’t see that change happening anytime soon. Public transport remains underfunded and the politicians in power praise cars over other methods of transportation. I’m not sure what it will take for change to happen much less for protest to happen, like the happened in Netherlands when there were massive protest and action taken against cars after cycling kids were killed by cars.