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<blockquote data-quote="Sgt Dog" data-source="post: 3955868" data-attributes="member: 15840"><p>I got a feeling that this situation is going to be one of those that prove ‘everyone’ right. </p><p></p><p>Perps ought to cooperate. Right!</p><p>Cops bad. Right!</p><p>Profiling ‘exhibit-A. Right!</p><p>Society is in self-detonation mode. Right!</p><p>Unintended consequence of glorifying defiance. Right!</p><p>Minorities as victims of policing. Right!</p><p>But cops are the neighborhood for a reason. Right!</p><p>Power corrupts, absolute power, absolutly. Right!</p><p></p><p>And from the print so far it might be worse than Rodney King… who arguably brought it on himself, just like George Floyd. And who arguably exposed the ugly reality of cops dealing with the dregs till some act just like them. And in case no one noticed was also a victim of the police having to worry about crowd control instead of just an apprehension. </p><p></p><p>I don’t think after watching the footage anybody is gonna feel sorry for the cops. But we probably should. Just like we feel sorry for inner city kids turned into tribal gang animals by a community of neglect or just like we feel sorry for some homeless drug addict who did everything he suffers to himself. If you give them the grace of thinking they didn’t set out to end up this way, like a vet in a war zone doesn’t set out to shatter his psyche, its just another human tragedy and the price people pay for both their choices and for circumstances they fail to overcome, and for society’s folkways and mores they are careless in maintaining.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sgt Dog, post: 3955868, member: 15840"] I got a feeling that this situation is going to be one of those that prove ‘everyone’ right. Perps ought to cooperate. Right! Cops bad. Right! Profiling ‘exhibit-A. Right! Society is in self-detonation mode. Right! Unintended consequence of glorifying defiance. Right! Minorities as victims of policing. Right! But cops are the neighborhood for a reason. Right! Power corrupts, absolute power, absolutly. Right! And from the print so far it might be worse than Rodney King… who arguably brought it on himself, just like George Floyd. And who arguably exposed the ugly reality of cops dealing with the dregs till some act just like them. And in case no one noticed was also a victim of the police having to worry about crowd control instead of just an apprehension. I don’t think after watching the footage anybody is gonna feel sorry for the cops. But we probably should. Just like we feel sorry for inner city kids turned into tribal gang animals by a community of neglect or just like we feel sorry for some homeless drug addict who did everything he suffers to himself. If you give them the grace of thinking they didn’t set out to end up this way, like a vet in a war zone doesn’t set out to shatter his psyche, its just another human tragedy and the price people pay for both their choices and for circumstances they fail to overcome, and for society’s folkways and mores they are careless in maintaining. [/QUOTE]
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