Cops are the enemy. They shoot the family dog, toss flash-bangs on babies, and shoot up vans with innocent people.
There is no situation that will not be made worse by the presence of a cop.
I was a passenger in car out near Terrell TX when it veered off the road and landed in a ditch. It seemed an eternity before a flashlight partially blinded me and a Texas State Trooper was behind it reassuring us and that ambulances were on the way. I was never so happy to see a cop in my life, and I’ve remembered that all these years.
You forgot: shooting up Ford Ranger trucks driven by two latina women delivering newspapers because the JBTs were on a shoot-to-kill mission for a wanted black male.
You must live a sheltered life. I've called the cops on things ranging from an idiot taking potshots at a can in his front yard while kids were playing across the street, to a guy pounding on a door yelling about beating up some kids as soon as he got inside. The cops calmed things down every time. The guy who had been pounding on the door even apologized to me the next day, and said he knew he was out of line and needed to be reined in.
and they are protected by each other and sovereign immunity (even when we’re wrong, we’re right) when they abuse power in ways regular thugs only dream of.
There is no situation that will not be made worse by the presence of a cop.
As harsh as those words are, it's true that even my conservative, totally traditional, "law and order", "by the book" DAD has come to harbor great hostility against the police.
My dad is literally the last person in the world who would possess "revolutionary" or "anti-establishment" impulses, but even he has seen the light with respect to police: militarization, federalization, arrogance, corruption, perjury, excessive force, SWAT abuse, no-knock warrants, shooting dogs, etc., etc.
When the police lose the respect and goodwill of somebody like my dad, there can be no doubt that they have become the epitome of Tyranny in modern America.
It can't be over-emphasized that the police losing the esteem of people like my dad, not to mention the typical Patriot malcontents such as our ilk, is an unmistakable sign that a critical juncture of American history and Liberty has been reached.
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