I was impressed with him until I read (Drudge?) that he wants the protesters to apply for the Dallas PD. The last thing I want is having these anarchists hired as cops. I’m sure my staying this this will upset some of you here.
staying = saying
It’s rhetorical: “do something productive about your complaints or shut your useless trap.”
The Chief’s own 30 year old son was a cop killer in 2010. The son killed a cop on father’s day 2010 and other cops were force to kill him.
Significant numbers of the protesters are not bad people, they are misled and lied to people. The lady in Dallas who was shot (but not badly injured), and then she and her son were saved by police shielding them, was, in an interview I saw on TV, making some good points (such as, what happens to "us" (blacks) if the police decide to quit for good?) Yet she and her son had been out there with the protesters.
My guess is that such a person can be reasoned with, but, the argument has to be framed correctly.
First, the Obama Administrations own statistics show that blacks are not disproportionately killed or targeted by police, particularly given black crime rates. Police DO sometimes overreact or use unjustified force, but it happens to whites too. Lavoy Finicum is just one example.
OTOH, blacks DO get a lot of attention from police, because black crime rates are so high. In fact, real racism would be the police NOT trying to go after black crime. But black leaders do not (for the most part) explain to their people that without support from the community, the police have an almost impossible job, which can lead to tensions: Instead, some of these leaders exploit the tensions and make matters worse, to enrich or empower themselves.
Now, some BLM'ers and their supporters may say that the high crime rates themselves are indicative of poverty, hopelessness, and despair in many black communities. I do not entirely "buy" this: There are counter examples around the world where poverty does not necessarily lead to the kind of violence we see on a daily basis in, say Chicago. Further, most poor in America are much, much better off than the poor in, say, the Philippines. But... Let's just say for sake of discussion that "poverty causes crime."
This is your opening. Why is poverty in so many black communities so severe? Why have so many black youths lost the desire to do better (excluding gang membership and / or selling drugs as a way to "do better")? Is it "The Man" / whitey?
Why are there so few jobs for blacks? Who is taking those jobs? (Opening for Trump immigration position.)
Who has been in charge the last 8 years? Have things improved for blacks?
Unemployment, says Obama, and his supporters, is low. Is this believable?
Intact and stable families usually "do better", economically. Who has destroyed the black family? And why?
Now, I realize this approach won't get through to most blacks who would, say, vote for Hillary. But even 10% would be a "big win", and maybe it's that 10% that the Dallas police chief is trying to get through to, too.