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Showing Original Post only (View all)Changing The Conversation To, "You're Saying, 'All Cops Are Bad' So You're A Hypocrite" [View all]
Why can't people be extremely pissed off at the inhumanity shown by so many cops, so often? Better yet, why wouldn't someone be angry? Police brutality is inexcusable yet it almost always goes without punishment, is often excused and is even lauded at times. The police unions are so incredulous they have excused and lauded the murder of a 12 year old boy.
It's like the Catholic Church with the pedophile priests. There were wonderful priests and nuns risking their lives to help others. But these selfless people represented the church, which protected the pedophiles. The Roman Catholic Church allowed children to be abused, molested and raped, for decades. I'm sure for centuries. Every single, solitary priest and nun who knew about the abuse and didn't do everything in their power to stop it, was just as guilty as the abusers and the protectors. They share the guilt because every child that was abused, and forever haunted by the abuse, wouldn't have been if the "good ones" the heroic ones did something. Fucking anything!
The same holds true with law enforcement officers and police brutality, racial profiling, abuse of power and outright murder. There are some absolutely wonderful, fearless, officers of peace who would protect your life with theirs. But if they keep silent about known abuses, they are just as guilty as the abuser.
Even without that being true, there is every reason to be sick of, sick from and completely outraged at police brutality and State sanctioned murder at the hands of the police.
The problem is, it is true. It is only with those in the know speaking out, that this will end. The silence from the good ones speaks as loudly as the defenders of abuse, murder and impunity for police in all matters. The silence from the heroic is as deafening as the shouts from police union representatives defending the murder of unarmed, of countless people being shackled without reason, of god knows how many kids now terrified to play at the park, of the thousands beaten bloody for not having the "right" color skin.
I applaud the few police officers who have spoken out against these senseless beatings and tragic miscarriages of justice. I find them to be the most courageous of all in law enforcement. They deserve our thanks and encouragement. Police Chief Chris Magnus is one of these heroes.
Unfortunately, there are only a few.
Until there is a stand by police officers against brutalizing fellow human beings, there will be outrage at cops. Until more than a handful of police officers speak out publicly against the atrocities that we see happening daily, there will be those that believe that all cops are bad. Only the police that can change that perception.
There should be outrage. We all should be outraged. The police should be outraged. Shame on anyone who isn't outraged as they are part of the problem.