“It’s time to push back on this crap.”
Unfortunately as I see it, the pushback needs to be in both directions. I support lawful enforcement of the law by decent cops who abide by the same laws they enforce on us. The problem is, that all too frequently, cops act like they are above those laws and feel no compunction to violate the legitimate constitutional rights of those with whom the come in contact if it suits them. I don’t want to see either cops or citizens being killed, but the cops have got to come to grips with their own unlawful behavior. Yeah, it’s a $hit job, and most of the time they deal with the dregs of society. That said, it does not give them the right to abuse anyone.
As for the “black lives matter crowd,” they are breeding a scab on the end of their nose. I have no problem punishing them and their leaders, like Calypso Louie, and “the two Reverends.”
The escalation by both the cops and the bad guys is going to get a lot of innocent people caught in the crossfire if we are not careful. I want to start reading articles about police conduct where I can say to myself, that was done by the book. And the whole process needs to start with getting rid of SWAT teams and shutting down the “war on drugs,” because it has become a “money maker” for the LEO’s that’s driving their behavior.
Use SWAT only when you have really very bad gang violence or riots.