I’ve defended the cops. I think they’re in an incredibly tough situation in the big liberal cities — caught between the bonehead nanny government and its brood of lawless citizens. I think it’s a state of affairs that makes Garner type situations more or less inevitable. Frequent disrespect and resistance towards the police means the police use force more often, which the raises the odds of this sort of thing happening. Garner’s death was unintentional and had nothing to do with racism, yet it can certainly be traced to “structural” factors — namely structural liberalism.
I will again agree with you, and let us not forget that our first Black president is setting and has set multiple fine examples of pissing on the law with impunity and getting his peeps to cover for him, while nothing that is going on is in any way anything that can be blamed on him. Unless of course it’s phantom numbers and “world peace” which is really breaking out all over the place.