Joe speaks out

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(05-30-2020, 03:39 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Cops are human. They deal with a lot of disrespect and unnecessary BS. I've given a few police officers some unnecessary grief myself in my younger days and very surprised I wasn't taken to the woodshed. There are several issues which should be addressed. Although not much of this pertains to the case at hand, maybe some of it does. Who knows? Such a crazy, sad, unfortunate and unnecessary situation we find ourselves in right now as a nation. We are looking in a mirror and we don't like what we see. Unfortunately, Chaos does nothing but lead the discussion in a different direction then where it should be. Once the streets are cleared and the fires are extinguished and the shattered windows replaced, we can then address the wrong which was done to George Floyd. Right now, it's no longer about him because violence silences reason and many who are doing the rioting probably don't even know his name. Sad really.

Being a police officer is one of the most high stress jobs there is.  I mean, they regularly deal with the scum of society, are put in life or death situations, and are vilified by modern culture.

Unfortunately, we have a huge double standard in our society.  If a person of a specific race, religion, social group, or sexual orientation commits a crime, it's not politically correct to generalize their actions towards the group as a whole.  If a cop commits a crime, though, it's perfectly acceptable within our current society to paint all of law enforcement with the same brush.

The current rioting is counterproductive.  It quickly erodes sympathy most people would have for the black community when they are out there looting and destroying the property of parties that are innocent and not even associated with the killing of George Floyd.