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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher too. It doesn't give me some  high ground on how to discuss. I understand and applaud your outrage over each incident. No police abuse is acceptable. However, i think that the nonstop posting of police violations has made the rate seem far more than it actually is. It is not bad to occasionally put these incidents in perspective as they relate to non incidents in a country as vast as ours. There are bad apple surgeons, bad apple judges, ba apple politicians, bad apple soldiers, and yes bad apple teachers. But working with teachers - you would be indignant if all teachers were painted with the brush of the few awful ones, and i think in this past year our society has come close to accepting treating police as a whole as an abusive class. Which is not supported by the fact of all the good policing that happens every day. When you talk about institutional problems I am listening to your ideas for solutions. Some of your proposals sound like they will help law enforcement be better at reaching its goal -to protect us and civil society.[/quote]

Honestly, I don't give an eff about all the times that police are kind to white children, or help get kittens off roofs or whatever.  Black men are being SHOT, while laying on the ground, and while trying to do their job.  There's no sticker that some kind beat cop can give out that will change that, or in any way counterbalance it.

What you are seeing isn't vilification of the police.  It is technology exposing what the Black community has known for generations - the police are not there for them.  It seems like a lot to you because you are hearing about it for the first time.

And, no, we shouldn't stop posting the videos because it's upsetting to white America.  We should be demanding accountability and responsibility from our police.  This wasn't a skinned knee or even an unlawful shake-down.  It was an officer firing a deadly weapon at a man who, again, was laying on the ground with his hands in the air.  [/quote]

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