Good Night Irene

[Benton]

(08-14-2018, 10:51 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 2. If you dig a little deeper with those offended by the form of protest, you'll usually also find that most of them also think the problem is imaginary. Or I should say exaggerated and more complicated than "cops are racists". As I said before, the real problem is how many high tension encounters we have with police. Out of millions of violent (or threat of violence?) encounters, we only have roughly a half dozen questionable shootings per year? Imo, we're doing great there.

In order to reach police with their message though, perhaps they should change their message to something other than police = KKK. For one, it's divisive and inaccurate. For two, it's going to be difficult to open dialogue with police after you slap them in the face repeatedly.

To the 2, I agree. The overwhelming majority of officers across the country have a dangerous job and the majority of the time it gets handled without ending in violence. And I think it's more often the officer getting injured.

But to the bold, I'm not sure who is getting slapped. When you've got idiots saying 'slaves had it great' or 'racism doesn't exist' it makes it difficult to have a conversation. Likewise, it doesn't help when you have visible numbers of white supremacists in law enforcement or government offices.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article210397909.html

Some (most?) agencies get rid of those kinds of idiots whenever they're made aware their agent is in a hate group. But what gets lost in all the divisiveness is the answer to: how do we keep people in hate groups from getting into law enforcement to begin with? I don't think we can do away with racism — it's inherent to find differences in ourselves — but removing people in hate groups from positions of authority doesn't seem too lofty.