gutterballgt:3fluffies:gutterballgt:mediamattersforamerica:This is what you’d call a double standard
gutterballgt:3fluffies:gutterballgt:mediamattersforamerica:This is what you’d call a double standard.I’ve tried so hard to explain this to a lady at work. Most of the time, she’s wonderful. Would give you the shirt off her back.But she hates the BLM movement, thinks all the black men and women who have been outright murdered or who have “mysteriously” died in police custody were thugs and criminals, and she thinks they should all just sit down and shut up because THEY’RE the ones inciting the violence. Because she watches this shit. She watches FOX News and thinks they’re honest.She said they should stop the riots, and I reminded her that there’s a huge difference between a riot and a protest. She says these black men being executed were criminals and I reminded her that several were literal CHILDREN who were unarmed and CHILDREN. She says that, sure, some police are bad, but the good ones are overwhelmed with all the black criminals out there and I reminded her that most of these bogus arrests can’t even be properly documented because there’s literally nothing to charge them with besides… what… jaywalking? Being in possession of a cell phone or a pack of smokes?She does listen, and I’ve gotten her to admit that maybe there’s been a bit of excessive force, but good God, she so wants to believe these lies, and it breaks my heart.How can she be so giving and charitable that she would give a homeless black child clothes and food and school supplies, but if that black child was killed by a bad cop, she’d argue that he probably deserved it.I just… God, I’m so tired. And I dread the day when I get that phone call. The one from my best friend’s wife telling me that my friend, the brother that I chose rather than the one I was born with, was killed in some racist police fuckery and we’re all just supposed to be okay with it.Police and their “blue wall” culture have turned into a full blown cult. Cops can do no wrong. You have to prove beyond any doubt via video from every angle that a cop is yelling his evil plan of Hitleresque genocide while beating the hell out of a fully bound and immobilized suspect before any cop or cop supporter will even BEGIN in admit that maybe this one is a bad cop and should be punished…and even then, any mention of failures in police culture and policy that led to the attack and they froth at the mouth.But that’s the thing that kills me most: the police are law ENFORCERS, not the judge-jury-executioners. Unless they walk into a literal gunfight, they’re not even supposed to draw their guns, for God’s sake, let alone discharge them. LET ALONE SHOOT SOMEONE.Their job is to arrest criminals. Not to straight up fly in, guns blazing, for no goddamn good reason.I’ve known cops whose pride was retiring without having ever drawn their gun. I’ve known cops who helped wounded people out of burning cars. I’ve known cops who call cabs for drunks instead of arresting them for even thinking about driving drunk, who walk little old ladies across the street, who take that “to protect and serve” on their car as seriously as doctors are supposed to take the Hippocratic Oath.But that’s not all cops anymore than all cops are evil racist fuckwads. And the good cops need to cut that Blue Line bullshit and stand up to the bad cops in their midst. Their job is to protect innocent people, not to tacitly sit by and allow their “brethren” to go all Elmer Fudd on anyone that isn’t a white male, preferably well-off.And since they won’t do that, everyone with a target on their head and everyone who supports them will protest. Not riot. PROTEST.There IS a goddamn difference. -- source link