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(21,597 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)Evergreen Emerald
(13,071 posts)Lovely.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Just beautiful.
I hope everyone there can appreciate the significance.
BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)sheshe2
(83,962 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)This video needs to be widely seen.
DianaForRussFeingold
(2,552 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)And I admire them for that.
BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)This is a true tonic after the horror of the past few days.
BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)Ilsa
(61,707 posts)And we have services where we honor them, with dept heads attending, etc, to let them know we care. But we don't get to hug them that much.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)When a young black man is murdered by a white cop, does the larger community and the police force line up to comfort his grieving family?
Or are they called thugs? Are they maligned in the media? And how are their assailants treated? Paid vacation and eventual exoneration.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)funerals of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and hug their family members.
I do know that most cops are good and only trying to do their jobs, but a significant minority are all too happy to intimidate, brutalize, and kill people. What happened in Dallas should not have happened, but I'm somewhat surprised something like that hasn't happened sooner.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)rollin74
(1,993 posts)awesome
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)I actually teared up and I am one nihilistic bastard. Hopefully some good comes out of these monstrous events.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)This is hurting bad. For the most part always any protest was worked out with police and always peaceful. We always strived for peace.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Important reminder! Perhaps this could happen with other types of tragedies! Cops need to be reminded that POC are human! and everyone needs to remember that cops are human.
treestar
(82,383 posts)The vast majority. We need to focus on that and not the outlier extremists.