Racist Morons...

[Benton]

Quote:2. The Douglasville Police Department originally refused to arrest the people making the threats.

And that becomes part of the problem for multiple reasons.

It feeds the public's perception (right or wrong) that some cops don't care about minorities. And there's some truth in this instance. If a dozen BLM protesters drove through a white person's yard threatening to "kill y'all white people" and pointing a shotgun, there would've been an armed response team.

But the bigger issue it shows the distrust between law enforcement and the legal system. In some places and in some cases, cops don't trust courts. They don't trust prosecutors to do their job or judges to make rational decisions. So they feel like they have to Judge Dredd it. Which strains that relationship.