Which recent shootings would you have supported? Because if you're supporting a particular cop, then you're supporting his shooting. To my knowledge, and I may be wrong, they all supported full and thorough investigations in the face of what appeared to an objective observer (bad ET haircuts aside) as questionable conduct. That is supporting justice.
DPD: Snipers Shoot 10 Officers, 3 Dead
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I'm just playing with your lack of outrage for those shootings and your outrage for these shootings.
I find a significant difference between a situation where a cop improperly shoots an individual and most civilians (and other officers) demand that the cop be held accountable after a complete investigation, ---- and a large scale, planned terrorist attack by BLM supporters which killed and wounded many police officers. The terrorist event should certainly carry much more outrage.
I guess you didn't live through the 1970s when the Black Liberation Army was murdering officers left & right. BTW one of the two officers they assassinated on January 27, 1972 in NYC was my uncle's good friend. My uncle was also a NYC cop. We should be outraged by any attack that deliberately targets police officers.
Too many cops are getting off scot-free. People are tired of it. And not just "blacks", there are a lot of "white" faces in those protest crowds. It's not a race war, it's an injustice war.
I agree. And we should be at least as outraged when the very people who are charged with maintaining the law are doing the senseless killing. See how that works?
“Some officers were shot in the back,” said Brown, who added that this men were attacked “ambush-style” by snipers from an elevated position.
Or one might say, "Police-Style."
This is a bit unfair to those policemen who try to do their jobs responsibly everyday, and don't deserve to be killed. But sadly, our Republic has lost its way, and this time the only terrorists we can blame are ourselves. For the immediate genesis of our current headlong rush to becoming a full-on police state we need look no further than the disastrous supply side economics of the 1980s that still haunts us today, the G.W. Bush suspension of habeas corpus, the ironically-named "Patriot Act", privatization of things that ought not to be privatized -- schools, prisons -- and perhaps most important of all, continued neglect of reforms in our criminal, "Criminal Justice" system, with its extortion, seizing of property without due process, and its for profit prisons.
It should be no surprise that when you have a populace armed to the teeth with semi-automatic weapons, increasing numbers of desperate people in a country with wide gulfs between a tiny number of wealthy, a shrinking middle class, and growing numbers of poor, and into that mix you throw government that serves the wealthy and pays lip service to the people, you will have increasing instability. To expect something other is irrational. It is through these acts of defiance that change occurs when no civilized option, that has a chance of succeeding, is available.
Or one might say, "Police-Style."
This is a bit unfair to those policemen who try to do their jobs responsibly everyday, and don't deserve to be killed. But sadly, our Republic has lost its way, and this time the only terrorists we can blame are ourselves. For the immediate genesis of our current headlong rush to becoming a full-on police state we need look no further than the disastrous supply side economics of the 1980s that still haunts us today, the G.W. Bush suspension of habeas corpus, the ironically-named "Patriot Act", privatization of things that ought not to be privatized -- schools, prisons -- and perhaps most important of all, continued neglect of reforms in our criminal, "Criminal Justice" system, with its extortion, seizing of property without due process, and its for profit prisons.
It should be no surprise that when you have a populace armed to the teeth with semi-automatic weapons, increasing numbers of desperate people in a country with wide gulfs between a tiny number of wealthy, a shrinking middle class, and growing numbers of poor, and into that mix you throw government that serves the wealthy and pays lip service to the people, you will have increasing instability. To expect something other is irrational. It is through these acts of defiance that change occurs when no civilized option, that has a chance of succeeding, is available.
Well said, though I have to raise some question about "desperation". No one of sound mind, even if unemployed, is starving or freezing to death, our basic needs are being met, and much more for most. Yet, we're still highly dissatisfied. Lends some weight to the relative deprivation hypothesis, no?