BLM doesn’t kill cops. Nutjobs that are angry at cops, justifiably or not, do.
If we have fewer things that make people pissed off at cops like…
* Rapacious civil forfeiture
* Warrantless searches/internal checkpoints
* Jailing someone based on a flawed test of a crumb of a white substance found on a vehicle floor
* Breaking the neck of an unarmed Indian man who was walking around his son’s neighborhood looking at houses
* Shooting at unarmed people
* Abuse and punishment of suspects not yet convicted of a crime. “Rough rides” didn’t only happen to Freddie Gray.
* Random harassment of people not suspected of a crime (aka stop and frisk).
… then maybe fewer people will be angry enough at cops to want to shoot at them. If anything, opening a dialogue about the proper behavior and role of law enforcement is likely to SAVE police lives down the line.
Kudos to Mr. President Obama for supporting BLM and continuing the dialog.
As far as cooperation with cops, don’t you think there should be limits? If a cop reaches up your wife’s skirt to search her nether regions for contraband, would you be OK with that, or would you want to punch the sonofabitch’s teeth down his throat?
As far as street protests, they have their place. They draw public attention to a problem that they might not be aware of, sitting at home watching TV in their nice, safe, suburb.
And speaking as someone whose children will likely be biracial, I don’t want them subject to more scrutiny and abuse from police because of how they look versus because of how they act!
