I have been saying for many years: The police are not our friends. I was ahead of the curve.
I am a lifelong conservative who has worked in ministry or on staff in two church denominations.
I have never been drunk or drugged. I was called The Straight One in my youth: a term of contempt bestowed upon me by a stoner and robber.
I was taught to respect the police by my highly conservative parents. I learned in my twenties that the police were as dangerous to the lawful as to the criminal. I learned it both firsthand by experience and secondhand by observation.
Case in point: San Jose Convention Center. It matters nothing if any of those individual tax-paid bullies vote Republican; they betrayed and endangered law-abiding citizens in following orders given by de facto communists.
The police departments are composed of unionized government employees, and that makes their milieu as a whole inherently collectivist and tyrannical.
Avoid interacting with the police whenever possible. Do not answer their questions without an attorney. (Someone should have told General Flynn that.)
It is unfortunate but we are now in a de facto police state, where, for example, somalis are being put on police forces because of diversity policies, who then shoot and kill first. I agree with you that unionized police workforces act as a collective, which makes them dangerous to all, not just the criminal class.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/20/somali-cop-in-minnesota-faces-murder-charges/
JoMa
Tell the cops: “ I got nothing to say” it gives you something to say without giving any information. Train your kids this way too.
+1
I’ve had a similar journey.