There is something fundamentally evil about violence. You shouldn't be obligated to seek redress for your grievances by looting a CVS, abd then burning it down. You shouldn't handcuff a suspect, and put him in a police van without a seatbelt (when he's already asking for help), subject him to a 'rough ride', then deny him medical care until it's too late. How is rioting and looting going to make the world a better place? How is extrajudicially executing a suspect already in custody going to make me feel safer? I already know that I'm not going to be calling 911 if I'm the victim of, or a witness to a crime. My respect and my trust are commodities no police force has yet to earn. But how is mindlessly rioting going to change it? How is looting and damaging other people's property (most, if not, all of whom had nothing to do with the original case) going to get police to clean up there act?
The wheels of justice move slowly, but they do move. Rioting won't bring back the dead, nor will it bring about police reform. Violence in all forms is evil, and I condemn both sides.
Violence. Is. Evil. Period.
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Consider this Roger, if you witness a crime against a fellow human and make no effort to help prevent, intervene or report it authorities you are abetting the victimizer and sacrificing the victim to further your own agenda. You also abet the very violence and aggression you say you are against. As a retired sheriff and corrections officer, I agree that unprovoked aggression by police is improper, unprofessional, inexcusable,and deserves strong remedial action. Fighting crime by committing crime is unacceptable. But let us not forget, not all police act like this. Its unfair of you to cast a net of contempt and accusation over all police. Most work hard to protect victim's and suspect's civil and constitutional rights.
It only takes one negative encounter. When you're walking by a Walgreen's (not even stepping off the sidewalk to go onto the parking lot),and that's grounds for a stop and an aggressive questioning over what did you steal from them... I live in Parkland, and I'm treated by the officers of the Pierce County Sheriff's Department like I'm on double-secret probation. I don't break the law (that is fundamentally wrong in and of itself), yet I'm still treated like a criminal. Trust is a two way street. If you have a badge and you treat the innocent like criminals, then you're no better than the thugs you're supposedly trying to protect us from.
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