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Originally Posted by jtown,man
No, I don't think many understand how much bs cops go through.
I just saw a video out of Chicago that showed people yelling at cops for pinning a guy down with like 4 police officers. The man was seen by police hitting someone with his car and running away. He ditched the vehicle and then finally fell after running away on foot. The man was resisting to the last minute until the overwelming numbers of cops got him down and arrested.
But the people hanging around were complaining the whole time: GET OFF HIM, STOP THAT BULLSHIT, THIS IS WRONG!
No, the people in the neighborhoods who support criminals are wrong. The white liberals who sit at home and saying POLICE ARE RACIST are wrong.
Not one ultra-liberal person has answered this question:
How many unarmed black men have CPD killed in the last decade?
It's never about facts, its about emotional narratives.
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Even a white racist should be disturbed by the videos of Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri being shoved at and sworn at by that police officer in Oakland, and by the attempts of that police officer and the police department thereafter to cast him as the aggressor and charge him for assault and sue him for injuries and damages.
Masai Ujiri is a famous millionaire, in an packed arena, surrounded by thousands of people and cameras everywhere, and this still happens to him. The police department could stood for justice and held one of their own accountable, they could have stood for FACTS, but instead they stood for injustice and lies and actually tried to help the officer in his efforts to attack and exploit Ujiri.
For people in the police or courts or government or any other position of authority to not only abuse their powers like that but also help each other abuse their powers like that is dangerous to the very foundations and institutions of the country. To equate such actions to people yelling at police is just fucking ridiculous. If the police did not so publicly and fervently support corruption and injustice, maybe people would not be so angry at them, don't you think?
To me, that is the real root of the problem. I don't give a shit about "Black Lives Matter". Any racial injustice just the symptom. The real root of the problem is the people in positions of authority not being held accountable for their actions, and actively protecting each other from being held accountable, and that can lead to injustices of all kinds.
That's the whole problem with the so-called United States of America. As a country, you can never see the value of restraint, you can only see the value of power. You cannot see the root of anything, you can only see the surface. You cannot see the bigger picture, you can only think in terms of the individual. You cannot see the connections or grey areas, you can only see in terms of the divisions and boundaries, white vs. black, liberal vs. conservative, protesters as extremists (e.g. "ultra-liberals"). That's why 348 people were murdered in Baltimore last year, why only 10,000 people use the Oklahoma City area's transit system each weekday last year, why 170,000 people have died from coronavirus, why Donald Trump is your president.
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