And that lays at the feet of Obama and BLM..and Soros. The cops fear for theirs lives and know they are in the crosshairs of a radical movement that will assassinate them.
I am an old white lady but if a cop stops me I am going to over cooperate just for my safety. They are on edge.
Do you think this started with the BLM? No, this adversarial attitude by law enforcement, this need to engage every situation as if it were a tactical shootout before arriving, has been going on for decades.
Let me give you a specific example of what I mean.
On January 1st, 2003, a family from South Carolina stopped at a gas station near Cookesville, Kentucky. The man filled up his tank and paid at the pump with his credit card. He set his wallet on top of his car as he put the gas cap on and forgot it. As he was driving off, his wallet released some cash that was in it, and someone at the station saw the money flying in the air and thought that the car had just been stolen. They called 911 to report a possible stolen car and gave a description of the vehicle.
A short while later, the family, a husband, wife and teenage boy, were pulled over, pulled out of the vehicle, placed on the ground and handcuffed. There were cameras on the officers, so we know what happened. The family begged the officers to close the doors to their vehicle because their two dogs were in the vehicle. The officers did not. One of the dogs got out and as its tail was wagging and its mouth was open (as seen on the video), it was shot as it approached an officer.
Now if the police were not amped up to catch some car thieves, they may have used their observation skills as they approached the car.
The car pulled over immediately. Most car thieves would try to run.
The car was from out of state and had luggage in it. Probably on a trip.
There were three people in the car and two dogs. Most car thieves don’t bring their animals along.
With that information, the officers could have asked to see a drivers license and registration. At that point, the man would have realized that his wallet was gone. The wife could have then provided ID and if her name matched with the registration, it would have become clear what had happened.
But the first instinct of the police was to pull people out and handcuff them. Let me say that again, the police felt to control a family traveling over the holidays, they had to physically handcuff them.
This is not a BLM problem. BLM is a problem all on it’s own, but BLM would not have grown into a problem without the environment where police go into every situation as if they must shoot their way out. This is a lack of training and discretion, and part of the problem is that police enforce the thin blue line mentality and bad cops are protected to protect cops in general.