>>>Three reasons I will never support any of this crap.
1. Tony Timpa
2. Daniel Shaver
3. Duncan Lemp
So are you saying that there is a systemic problem with policing in this country?
I'd never had a truly bad police encounter until my then significant other & I were stopped one night a few years ago here in Georgia. We were a mixed race couple and one young white cop was so sure it had to be a nefarious situation either drugs or prostitution. It broke the innate trust I had developed for the "boys in blue" over decades.
What's interesting to me is my career has included investigations of misconduct on the job, usually theft. Too often the investigation has lead to a student of criminal justice. I no longer find that coincidental.
>>So are you saying that there is a systemic problem with policing in this country?<<
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I know it’s a tough job but that’s not an excuse for many of these deaths. Tony Timpa was already handcuffed and on the ground when police arrive, there was no need for several officers to sit on him and he lay there. Daniel Shaver was obeying what the police said while crying and begging them not to shoot him, Duncan Lemp was killed during a “no knock” raid when he posed no immediate threat to police.
There are things involving policing that must change. You could be next.