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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think most posters on here are beyond the age of typical law enforcement recruitment. My younger sister is one BTW and I’ve seen her become pretty hardened over the years. Hard to have a serious conversation with her about all this. It usually descends into her ranting about how [b]police officers risk their lives every day and the media only focuses on the bad things, etc.[/quote]
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Maybe, if you would listen to what she is saying you could have a "serious" conversation.

Yes, there is police brutality.  But, it is hard to focus on that when you are beating your brains out trying to help people at risk to yourself.

Minneapolis police has had problems for many years.  They have a Dem mayor, a Dem governor, a Dem city council, and an African American Chief of Police.  They have had police shootings of African Americans and an African American policeman shot and killed a white woman.  The latter is in jail--but, it took over a year to charge him.  There were no riots over her death.

What happened to Floyd was awful, horrific, disturbing beyond words.  But, you need to look to the people running the show in Minnesota--not riot all over the US.  And, especially, this is the fault of Chauvin and, likely, his posse.[/quote]

Fair enough!  FWIW, I have not initiated a conversation on this since Eric Gardner, and even then it was something along the lines of, I understand why there weren’t charges filed against Michael Brown’s shooter, but it feels like the Eric Gardner situation is different. Mistake. After that I just try to tell her how proud I am, never post on social media, don’t attend protests, etc.  She acknowledges that what happened to George Floyd was wrong, but is convinced that it is really just a few bad apples and that 99% of them are doing the right thing every day. But literally just last week she was telling me how frustrated she was with inner city folks not social distancing, that “as usual, they all think the rules don’t apply to them.”   Just has always had a us vs. them attitude but doesn’t see it for what it is.[/quote]

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