“Probably close to the same with most groups, but it is the bad apples who are held up for public viewing, and have made-for-teevee movies made about them.”
The people who keep posting these anti-Cop threads have an agenda, just like the Black Lives Matter folks do. Coming from different places, but the end result is the same. Slamming the thin blue line. And it’s getting thinner everyday. You better hope you never need their help and it doesn’t come.
If organized patriotic people can be separated from and suspicious of other organized patriotic people, everyone will be too disorganized to present any serious opposition to those who are organizing the disorganization.
Considering that Fergusson, Tryavon, and possibly the incident over selling cigarettes (loosies), were either outright justifiable shoots or ones which did not get investigated without heavy political pressure for a specific outcome, and that the press fomented anger to the point where rioting was incited, both by the press and agitators on the ground, with Presidential approval (tacit or otherwise), I'd say the origins and the agenda are evident.
If the American people can be made suspicious of each other to the point they cannot cooperate against a common enemy, the enemy wins.
So, Cui bono?
The organizer, of course.
The Supreme Court has ruled numerous times that the police are under on obligation to protect you[the Citizen]. Their duty is to the State.