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In reply to the discussion: Do we actually know who killed those cops [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I have heard them demand justice, demand that cops stop murdering people and demand that they stop using miltary tanks and other weapons to combat protesters.
It's NOT the same. And the fact is cops are getting aay with their crimes and with what they do to people. Look at that little toddler who had a flash grenade thrown at him or the 7-year-old child shot in her own bed during a raid.
When people see justice, when they see that the cops who harmed these kids don't get away with it, they have faith in cops.
When cops get away with killing a 12-year-old with a toy gun or choking a man to death over cigarettes and there is no accounting, people very rightly get very angry.
Even of nobody protested; even if nobody said anything publicly, do you think all the people in the US who have been abused, had family members killed, had their money stolen all by cops, do you think those people only feel pain or get angry when protesters point it out?
Do you think maybe a lot of people have been suffering in silence for YEARS out of fear? Do you think if we just sweep all of the cop corruption under the rug, that nobody will be angry with cops? You live in a dream world if you think that.
This man was a nut most likely, who just went out of his head. He wasn't motivated by anything protesters did or said. He was motivated by his own anger and prejudice and inability to cope with either.