I've always supported BLM. The concept that Black lives are being destroyed by systemic racism in the judicial system is something I grew up with and watched many of my friends die from or go to prison for. I know very few good cops and almost all of them are family. 1 is a neighbor and the other is a friend. To a man they all agree that the system is racist towards Black men. This is also something many ex cops will tell you.
“Simply put, white cops are afraid of black men. We don’t talk about it, we pretend it doesn’t exist, we claim “color blindness,” we say white officers treat black men the same way they treat white men. But that’s a lie. In fact, the bigger, the darker the black man the greater the fear. The African-American community knows this. Hell, most whites know it. Yet, even though it’s a central, if not the defining ingredient in the makeup of police racism, white cops won’t admit it to themselves, or to others.”
― Norm Stamper, Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing