02-26-2016, 05:47 PM
(02-26-2016, 09:40 AM)SteelCrysis Wrote: Cops in MN are Minnesota nice in my experience. Then again, I'm white, so depending on your race your mileage may vary.
There is no doubt that there are incidents where cops abuse their power either by mistake or deliberately. No one disagrees that in these incidents they should be dismissed, or prosecuted.
It's also true that those incidents are statistically very small, and that in any job you will have people that suck at it.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/.../79490322/
Here's a white guy the police shot. Before this video was released his fellow illegal protesters were saying he was on his knees, hands in the air, begging for his life when they shot him. Video shows him reaching for his gun after almost running over cop.
If this guy would have stuck to raising cattle would the cops have shot him?
No.
He committed crimes and resisted arrest, and that is the story with 99% of the people who get shot or beat up by cops.
It's pretty easy for people who work in offices to see the violence in the news when the cops make a mistake or are just bad cops and say, "Heavens to Betsy! These armed hooligans are abusing the public trust!".
None of us have to be involved in physical confrontations that could end our lives day in, day out.
The fact of the matter is almost all of the cops are people I want doing their job and trust, and almost all of the criminals are people I want arrested and incarcerated.