I realize you wet yourself every time you see a black man, but let's be blunt. Most of these recent incidents that Fox News can't talk enough about usually involves people with decades of mental illness. Frankly, it would nice if we got these people treatment before the voices in their heads tell them to hit someone or push someone in front of a train. But we've all come to expect that crazy white people should get their meds and crazy people of color, we should just avert our eyes and pretend they are not there and hope they don't hurt us.
It always amazes me when right-wingers complain about the inhumanity their policies cause.
I could imagine you at the Crucifixion.
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True, I'll be the first one to say it, and have said it to some our resident BLM supporters. Most cops are good guys. Most cops do a great job.
The problem is, they tolerate people like Chauvin or Van Dyke or Loehmann in their midst.
Take for instance, Darren Chauvin. The man had dozens of previous incidents of using excessive force.
Jason van Dyke had 20 prior complaints, including one incident where he dislocated a suspect's shoulder during a traffic stop and the city paid out $350K.
Timothy Loehmann was fired by an suburban police department for mental instability. (his range officer had to disarm him on a shooting range because he had a nervous breakdown about his girlfriend dumping him.) The city of Cleveland picked him right up! He went on to shoot a 12 year old playing with a toy gun in a park.
Part of the problem is the Police Unions, who pretty much go to the mattresses for every cop accused of misconduct.
part of the problem are the cops who see stuff that is wrong, but don't want to be seen as a "rat".
So we saw 10 years of these incidents, had ten years of peaceful protests and taking a knee, nicely asking white people to maybe fix the problem. And nothing.
Until we got the riots. Then people want to fix things.