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posted by
mrford:
I don't blame cops for being jumpy around a group that statistically commit the vast majority of violent crimes. It is no different than you feeling edgy walking through the wrong neighborhood or with a dirka dirka next to you on the plane.
I do blame the bad cops for taking force too far though.
If you want to fix the systemic problem, not only does an effort need to be made by the police, but all these fluff tarded protesters need to focus their energy on the violence in their own community. Stop breaking the law and you won't interact with the cops so much.
And EVERYONE needs to stop generalizing. Not all cops are bad. Not all black people are murderers. Pretty simple. Killing random cops will only make things worse. That is the only certainty here.
And the part that is never discussed, always omitted as the news channels play the same clip over and over, is what is the root cause? Why are cops at the scene in the first place? Why didn't that one kid a few months ago just drop the fluffing gun instead of keep moving with it? We saw the horrible clip of the cop shooting the guy in the car the other day and his girlfriend videoing after the fact.
Why did the cop have to shoot the guy? Why was the cop on the passenger side of the car at all? Why did he need the passenger's ID if he wasn't driving? Why wasn't the girlfriend trying to revive her man, tell him she loved him, perform CPR? I'd be freaking out if my wife was sitting beside me with bullet holes in her, and would sure as hell be trying to help her or get my ass shot for trying to fight back IF a cop just walked up to her and shot her as most are being depicted. Something happened before all of that which we will never see.
There is a root cause to everything, be it cultural issues in race, bad cops, silent ones that won't rat out their partners, and/or the people that join the "peaceful protest" yet yell, show bats, and gang and black panther symbols to incite the crowd, and the media that plays this over and over and over and over and......
How can we stand together against the evilness that wants to wipe out innocent lives over religious beliefs if we cannot trust others enough to turn our back towards them while we fight together?