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The tragedy of cops being assassinated will continue as long as the police stay militarized and consider the rest of us their enemies.
Every week for months and months the media has broadcast videos of black men being gunned down, choked to death, tasered to death and killed by wild paddy-wagon rides. Or white victims hit by mistake by squads of cop goons called SWAT, or highway patrol officers sitting on a prostrate woman and hitting her in the face repeatedly ... Of course there's going to be a cost to that kind of ongoing negative publicity. One result is that enough of the American public, black or white, is now certain that law enforcement officers are OUR enemy, that there should be no surprise whatever when cops are assassinated. It's the logical outcome.
As long as law enforcement broadcasts by their behavior, their equipment and their attitudes, that they regard us all as their enemies, the war between the cops and the rest of us will go on and there will be blood.
Unless there's a major change in the behavior of today's militarized law enforcement, they're going to need all the MRAPS, up-armored Humvees, machine guns and armored drones our government seems so determined to give them.
Reality.
Every week for months and months the media has broadcast videos of black men being gunned down, choked to death, tasered to death and killed by wild paddy-wagon rides. Or white victims hit by mistake by squads of cop goons called SWAT, or highway patrol officers sitting on a prostrate woman and hitting her in the face repeatedly ... Of course there's going to be a cost to that kind of ongoing negative publicity. One result is that enough of the American public, black or white, is now certain that law enforcement officers are OUR enemy, that there should be no surprise whatever when cops are assassinated. It's the logical outcome.
As long as law enforcement broadcasts by their behavior, their equipment and their attitudes, that they regard us all as their enemies, the war between the cops and the rest of us will go on and there will be blood.
Unless there's a major change in the behavior of today's militarized law enforcement, they're going to need all the MRAPS, up-armored Humvees, machine guns and armored drones our government seems so determined to give them.
Reality.
