Quote:I've never suggested the rioting is justified even if the cop shot brown in cold blood. I've discussed at length what leads to these boil overs, and pointed there has been in the past police brutality in minority communities.


Somehow if you acknowledge police brutality is a reality your a cop hater and must have been caught doing something illegal, that's a pretty broad assumption.


For the record I've never been arrested or had problems with police heck I'm friends with good number of police doesn't change my belief that the militarization is a problem creating more problems.


Accusing people that acknowledge police brutality as cop haters is like accusing prolife groups of hating women, it's demonized the oposition to avoid the topic.

 

Nobody has said there isn't police brutality, but what you seem to be stating isn't the small minority of cops.  It seems like you are over stating the amount of cops that are bad people.

 

This case could be a prime example where "police brutality" is not true.  If it comes out that this kid rushed the cop and punched him hard enough to break an eye socket, then this is an unfair case to the police.  At this point it is ingrained in some peoples heads that a cop shot a kid that had his hands up and was walking away, when the more and more evidence that comes out, that doesn't seem the case.

 

Everyone that gets in trouble now wants to scream that it was unfair and that the cops roughed them up.

 

Why is it bad that cops are using advanced weapons against people now?  If people are stupid enough to try and kill a cop, they should have the best at their disposal.

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