11-20-2019, 11:45 PM
(11-20-2019, 04:38 PM)grampahol Wrote: I've often found the Kap debate rather odd. It's not as if his protest was completely without merit. There have been several police shootings of unarmed black men and there were then. I think the biggest issue was how it got blown up as being somehow anti-American to protest killing unarmed citizens by kneeling during the national anthem. You would think that he shot a president or something or spat on the flag. He didn't.
Is there anyone who is going to stand up to justify police shooting unarmed citizens for any reason much less the reasons they've been shot for? I don't think so.
I've witnessed police misconduct several times and was in a court room when a young black man was sent to jail for 90 days for the same offense I was there for. He had a clean record except for the his first offense and mine was like my 5th offense of the same thing and yet I walked out of the courtroom while he went straight to the jail from the courtroom.
I don't object to these protests in the least. But don't anyone try to implicate me as somehow being unpatriotic. I would do things for my country most of you wouldn't dream of if I thought I would be successful. Kap's original sin was speaking truth to power.
I believe that when you clump the "police " into a single group is the same as including all groups as responsible for the actions of one member of a group. There probably hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers in our country and to expect that there wouldn't be some bad ones and some good ones who make mistakes because of the nature of their jobs isn't realistic. If there were no law enforcement this world would be a troubling place to be.
