By repeating slogans, bumper stickers and spoon fed messages that are not true or factual. With a false foundation or assumption as a staring point it is easy to get lost in furthering the misinformation.
Many here say I am a liberal and therefore assign positions I am supposed to believe in which are patently false. I am extremely pro police and pro 2nd amendment. I fully believe in the motto to "protect and serve". It rings of a selfless and valiant goal. When an officer of the law strays away from that goal and fails to protect and serve it is he or she that spits on the good cops, not the civilians who point it out. We have every right to believe and trust in our police. When that trust is broken it sends shock waves throughout our society and unfortunately the police close ranks and deny any failure to protect and serve. That is a dishonest approach. They do not have the right to close ranks and cover up the failure to protect and serve the public. It just compounds to original sin and chips away at our trust which needs to be absolute.
I wish policing was more like golf where the player is duty bound to report and add strokes on his own when he commits a mistake. No referees. No umpires or D A's, Internal Investigations or Grand Jury's to define the obvious. and let the offender off with a slap on the wrist.
Any cop that kills an innocent human being in the heat of the moment or assaults a citizen without just cause should catch his breath after the incident and realize his mistake honorably and immediately turn in his badge and weapon.
I say that because I have an extremely high regard for police not a low one.
You are basing your complaints on what YOU believe, not what our laws are.
As I said, if a police officer is found to be out of line in any situation, they will pay the price for it. The problem people like you have is you don't believe in the way our justice system works. When an officer is accused of anything, it gets investigated, many times there are videos involved, the evidence pro and con gets handed down to everyday citizens of a jury, and they decide if any laws were broken.
Hands up--don't shoot. A lie. The conduct of the Baltimore police department--a lie. Their attempted prosecution--politics.
Closer to home, our police shot and killed a 12 year old boy. The video was played coast to coast. People decided to see what they wanted to see. However when that video was used in the officers defense, and a video expert went frame by frame with the grand jury, they found the officers actions to be justified. In spite of that, liberals here (and I'm sure everywhere) continue to bring up that video as if the officer did something illegal. They do the same with that guy in New York who was selling cigarettes and the police had to grab him and throw him to the ground where he died. Liberals are still saying that the officer used a choke hold when the video (and audio) clearly showed he didn't.
In a civilized country, there are rules. If you see (or read) of something you don't like the looks of, that doesn't mean any laws were broken, it means you don't like what you seen or read. But nobody is guilty of anything.
It's just like the George Zimmerman trail. The guy did nothing wrong. Now you may not have liked his decisions, what he did, how he did it, but he broke no laws. He had every legal right to protect himself using deadly force. That's our laws in this country.
The "price" killer cops pay is pennies on the dollar.