On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 4:14:12 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/23/2021 3:24 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:


Very well said, thanks. The concept of "protect and serve" went out the
window back in the 50's but I'd like to see it come back*. Since then, cops
have given themselves all kinds of powers that they only have because
people are too scared or ignorant to speak up.

When a conversation with a cop goes like this, you know there's a problem.
"Get out of the car!"
"Why?"
"Because I said so!"

*Thinking out loud, maybe there could be a program to restore policing to
what it used to be, to what it should be, and the program could be called
"Make America Great Again." Has that slogan been taken?

Broad brush you are using there. You are not necessarily wrong, but it
goes both ways.

Have you seen any of the narrative about the black knife wielding girl
that was shot? She was about to stab and possibly kill another girl but
some are saying he shot because he wanted to kill a black girl. Does
not matter that he may have saved the life of another. If they were so
concerned about a bad cop, why did they call for them to come help?

+1

That's another classic. The cops can't do anything that right. As the cops
arrive, that big, fat assed 16 year old is assaulting another girl, throwing
her violently to the ground. Then wielding a big knife, going up to another girl
who's backed up against a car, holding it like she's about to plunge it into
her with only about a foot or two between them.



Yes, there are bad cops, racist cops, but there are many good ones.
Often the person stopped is the one staring to escalate a simple
situation by their bad attitude.

Everyone, police and civilians, have to step back and check their attitude.

But you'll never hear the Black Lies Matter bunch say that, tell the black
people that they need to just cooperate with police, not resist, not create
volatile, toxic, dangerous situations. Telling them to leave their illegal guns
home wouldn't be a bad idea either.