LOL

"I had an encounter with police and didn't get killed while begging for my life, so everything's OK, herp-derp."

You guys are [BLEEP] hilarious.

The problem is that we can't go 5 weeks in this country right now without an arrest somewhere going horribly wrong and finding its way to the national spotlight.

This ^  has resulted in a very serious fracture between a very large section of the citizens of our great nation and the largely brave and honorable men and women of our police forces. And when I say "largely" I mean a very high percentage. I'm not anti-police in the slightest. I am anti-wrongful death. 

You can stick your head in the sand and say "racism isn't a problem anymore" or "this cop was a bad actor and not racist" or any response that serves to lessen what's being perceived all you want. But it does nothing to address a very real and growing issue that isn't going away by digging up police statistics or citing one's own personal experience with police and/or racial bias. 

How you feel about race doesn't matter right now. 
How millions of disaffected people of color are feeling right now does matter, whether you like it or not. 
It doesn't matter if you think it's only a problem because of the way media and internet function in our current society. 

Ignoring this problem or sweeping it under the rug won't fix it. 

Police forces can readily adopt efforts to sow good will by ramping up their vetting procedures and augmenting training to avoid racial bias (or even the perception of it) and begin to make some difference in the rift that has occured. 

As I've said before - this may lead to some redundancies for some officers in training - but who cares? 
Too much of a good thing is OK right now.

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