Asclepias
Diamond Member
Its a progression. They have long run roughshod over the Black and Hispanic communities. They have now escalated to the white community as well.Twas ever thus. Police are now killing civilians, the unarmed, the minority. Is this a change? Have police always acted this aggressively while protecting us from the murderers and brutes? Is this now standard operating procedure for policing? Do community police departments need all the paramilitary gear they got after September 11th?The police are there to 'protect and serve'. Responsible police tactics take community concerns into account. Killing the unarmed, those under control, those in custody betrays the mandate to the police to protect and serve the community in their charge.The only reason that we even have a police force is because a percentage of people won't behave. Probably the same percentage of police that won't behave. Address brutality in general if you want to be taken seriously.
Protect and serve law abiding citizens from criminal civilians who murder or brutalize people every day.
Or are we now painfully aware of police brutality after, well, we saw it in Chicago in 1968, on the streets of Los Angeles in 1993, in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, in Cleveland this past winter, on Staten Island last autumn, in Baltimore Maryland las month?