Quote:Ok, but you continue to say that the police have become more aggressive recently.  I don't think much has changed in their behavior.  I do think that with an increasing population and the type of people they have to deal with, you have to cut them some slack.

 

In a lot of cases they deal with the worst society has to offer, so if they are a little forecful without crossing a certain line, I have no problem with it.  They dont know if you or I carry a gun or a knife, and they want to go home to see their family at night.  So if they want to make me get on the ground or throw me down because I'm an idiot that doesn't want to listen...go for it.

 

Please don't mistake what I'm trying to say as against of the average officer. I sympathize with them, they've been put in a bad spot. However you have to admit there is an over aggressive tone all together regarding the police force, it has become militarized. The police in Missouri have even called the area as a "war zone" I'll find the link to the article when I get home.

 

The redirect WAR on Drugs has been used forever, combine that with equipping our police like a military and the mindset changes. It changes from protect and serve to survive the war zone, in a war zone shoot first incidents are going to happen.

 

That's my issue this APPEARS to be a case of a hot headed cop that was in the shot first survive the war zone mentality. The family came out and asked for peaceful protest, and at first there seemed to be peaceful protest. Then agitators like Al Sharpton move in and suddenly they're rioting and looting. Several articles have reported most of the looters are not from the area, so they're coming just to agitate a bad situation. Now the discussion isn't the militarized police treating American soil like a "war zone" but rather controlling an unruly mob and the NEED for a militarized police force to control the public.

---