Baltimore

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Originally Posted by MathGeek

Is silently condoning abuse of police powers and foot dragging in the investigation of a death while in police custody any different from silently condoning the aftermath of rioting and looting?

My view is that neither abuse of police power nor rioting and looting should be silently condoned.

This is true.
To clarify;
There are some bad cops. There are many more good cops.
When a bad cop does something bad, it is sensationalized in the media.
When a good cop does something good, it is rarely recognized.
The volume of attention given to the few times bad cops do bad things does not give anyone the right to decide "cops are bad," which is the message being sent to the simple-minded majority who are so ignorant that they have no other recourse to their problems than violence, rioting, and pillaging. And they are passing it on to their children.

Make no mistake, if you villainize the police, there will come a time when the wolf knocks at the door and you will be confronted with the realities they live with routinely.

People, you know what's right, you know what's really going on, and you have a choice to speak up for that when it is being questioned, or to ignore it, fear ostracism, or cower.