I watched the video on Twitter of the French police dumping a guy in a wheelchair on the ground. It”s out there’and enough to make most anyone revolt.
Yes, I saw that video and it is that type of behavior that gives me empathy for the way some communities are treated.
I know, some communities are littered with drug dealers and killers. But within these communities are mostly law abiding people stuck in a bad spot. They demand police do something about crime - the poor prey on the poor. And what police do about it is the functional equivalent of tossing over a man in a wheelchair. They shake the whole community down trying to catch a couple of really bad guys, and in the meantime ensnare a whole bunch of people on very minor charges. As if that is any kind of effective policing on the most violent and dangerous people. That is why we have “black lives matter” type protests. It isn’t because of one man, the one man was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What straw will break the back of the great wide masses of America?
I appreciate that LE has a very hard job to do, and that they are doing the tasks assigned to them. My argument is not with them it is with those who create these policies. It does not escape notice that these are mostly all Democrat run communities, either. Using LE for revenue enhancement, though, is outrageous as it is to cite and shake down people for broken tail lights or a rolling stop etc. Again, this is just one shard of an iceberg of issues we need to address to restore a Free Republic.