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In reply to the discussion: We must NOT buy into the narrative that a cop's life is worth more than any other [View all]Chemisse
(30,803 posts)There is no opportunity to find guilt or lack of guilt.
Instead we are treated to a strange kind of logic:
If a cop does something, it is auto-okay, because it was a COP who did it. And hey, cops are heroes, and they risk their lives every day, and bad people hate cops, in fact bad people KILL cops. So it is wrong to bad-mouth them this way. Show them respect; trust them; they are there to help you. And if they shoot you - well then you were a criminal. Because otherwise they wouldn't have shot you. Maybe you weren't doing anything bad that day, but heck, anybody could tell you were scum. So it all boils down to this: You either support all cops and all of their actions - or you are cop haters, (maybe even cop killers!). There is just no in-between.