Not necessarily true. There are enough cases of bad cops that you can’t make an assumption that they are always the good guys - and this is coming from someone with multiple family members involved in law enforcement. The best you can do is wait for the facts to come out and hope the cops didn’t screw up here.
Unfortunately, there are more than a few bad cops out there. I’m a motorcyclist (non-Harley) and I’ve been accosted by police while literally sitting on a park bench next to my legally parked motorcycle while reading a book at lunch.
Now, that said, it certainly isn’t “All police accost you at all times” or anything like what BLM purports cops to be - but this graphic just isn’t true. Note: I am not white, nor am I black and cops certainly can’t tell what race I am while wearing full motorcycle gear.
Motorcyclist (not me) not doing anything illegal, has proof he wasn’t doing anything illegal; cop hassles, arrests and assaults the biker on false charges:
https://jalopnik.com/the-dallas-cop-who-arrested-a-biker-with-a-helmet-cam-h-5946658
To say nothing of the Botham Jean or worse the Atatiana Johnson cases - both were not doing anything illegal but sitting in their homes when cops mistakenly shot them.
Er, sorry, that was the Atatiana Jefferson case. In neither case were any illegal behaviors seen, no illegal materials of note were found, and no grounds for the police to shoot anyone were present.
