Posted on 12/20/2014 5:00:40 PM PST by jmaroneps37
Two weeks ago I wrote about the 40 year Black war on cops and top my surprise some here seemed to imply that cops "have it coming." Some wrote insulting comments. Does anyone out there doubt the existence of this war now?
What you speak of may be true, but if so, it also says volumes about the integrity of the officers hired to “serve and protect”. They have none. They should stand up for themselves and the profession which they claim they aspire too.
Why should I as a taxpayer have to support such “non-service” whiny excuses for public servants? I simpathize with the good cop afraid of being blamed for trying to do the right thing, but I don’t have sympathy for cowards sucking on the taxpayers tit.
What you speak of may be true,......
I did not write it, I just shared it.
The policeman who wrote it is right on.
I think you need to read it, not skim over it.
I read the whole thing, and out of respect for your reply I read it again. I am not disputing what is claimed. I am just fed up with excuses for not doing the right thing by people we pay to do the right thing, and are supposed to hold up as examples of virtue.
This is independent of body-cams or other politics
The posts saying police officers “have it coming” in regards to murder. I have never seen anyone on Free Republic advocate the murder of a police officers.
In fact, I think you are a liar.
BTTT.
I understand.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt the love-spat between you two, but that $#!+ is funny. LOL!
There are good cops and bad cops, just like there are good blacks and bad blacks. Saying that black thugs need to be dealt with, is not a call for genocide against all blacks. Similarly, saying that thuggish cops need to have their badges taken away is not a statement against all cops.
I struggle with the issue myself as regards race, but I have so far avoided binary thinking there, too. I admit, after (reading about) the events of the last 2-3 years, a person of color starts with the assumption they are hostile (violently so) to my race, but that can be overcome, and I embrace those people of color who have repudiated the prevalent meme in their community.
It took me years (decades) to get over the binary-thinking habit. It keeps trying to raise its head with race, but I grew up in a non-racist home in the '50s and '60s and spent my first 8 years in a part of the city that became 80% Black while I lived there - these were family people and our friends and neighbors. I watched how the race riots of the '60s changed a number of them, and how they treated me, but the core remained good people. Before the race riots, the worst "scandal" in our area was when a young Black man down the street (Bernie Dunham) started dating, then married a blonde woman. It stirred up a lot of chatter, but I never saw one act of hostility. He and his brother George were upstanding family men who moved to the 'burbs and worked hard - typical of many of the time in our area (Rochester NY). I also worked in a number of places where many co-workers were Black and they were also mostly upstanding folks. Now, I live on the MS Gulf Coast and, for the most part, the Blacks are working folks who also practice common courtesies. If you smile and greet a Black stranger, you are apt to receive same in return.
All that said, I cannot stop myself from looking closer at a Black man these days and elevate my situational awareness - I ascribe this to how the Black rabble-rousers and MSM keep pushing it into the forefront and the inevitable results in the whole sum of the Black communities.
PS - Thanks for "chatting" with donna on the cop thing - I still believe the majority of cops are decent folks, but the times fosters more aggression and the bad seeds take longer steps these days - add militarization and it drags the overall image down and fosters additional fear/distrust. I hear some lawyers are pretty upstanding folks too...
OK - I think you are one of the ones that focuses on one side and resists all temptation to be able to look at things on a case-by-case basis.
Don't you turn away from me young lady (or whatever the case may be)! Look at me while we're talking face-to-face!
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