It would help if cops stopped sneaking into people’s houses and shooting people who are lying in bed. Or murdering some crying man who is laying face down on the floor.
Or picking up 11 year old kids and twice slamming them to the floor as did that school cop in North Carolina...
Things like that really hurt the look on police officers, even though probably 98% are good people....
“Or murdering some crying man who is laying face down on the floor.”
There are pre-teen children today plotting to kill people and some actually attempt it or do it. These days police can’t simply look at almost anyone and think they aren’t capable of a heinous violent crime.
In the case you’re apparently talking about, that man had brandished a weapon from a hotel balcony, which prompted the frantic call to police from at least one onlooker. I believe it was only a weapon to rid birds out of places like supermarkets, and he pointed it around on the balcony drunkenly in front of friends, but still a person is also accountable if having such a weapon is his responsibility and he negligently brings it out and points it around in a public place like that. Being intoxicated is no excuse.
Police therefore justifiably had to consider that he might want to conduct a mass killing, and while he disobeyed the officer who told him in effect not to make any false moves only to probably pull up his pants, he still did that reaching back to his pants motion, which at the time they couldn’t be sure wasn’t a move to retrieve a weapon to shoot at them. So, it was not at all as simple as you paint the incident.
True - but perhaps the knowledge that one is a constant target who may be the next to be cut down by the thugs running loose changes one’s thought processes.
Acts by individuals do not condemn an entire organization..