tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19963266.post7983520325786262498..comments2022-12-24T20:04:15.057-05:00Comments on The Cybernetic Atheist: On Police BrutalityAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05578145425454731854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19963266.post-2628739121439166972014-12-16T00:19:19.652-05:002014-12-16T00:19:19.652-05:00I thank you for your comment.
But if you look car...I thank you for your comment.<br /><br />But if you look carefully at the facts of both cases - and a fair number of others, including the case of the kid in the Midwest the cop shot within two seconds of exiting his car - and you'll see cops whose attitudes at the very beginning of each encounter were confrontational and actually contrary to normal police procedure!<br /><br />Each of these cops also have had histories of confrontations with citizens, and often are known both among the citizens they patrol among and their own coworkers as trouble makers.<br /><br />People WILL get defensive if they are approached by a cop with a confrontational attitude, even if they are innocent.<br /><br />The cop is the guy with the gun, he is supposed to be in control. If the situation goes south, it is an even bet that the cop approached the situation wrong in the first place - especially when you've got a white cop and a black or other minority citizen, and the person being approached is not guilty of a crime.<br /><br />I'm sorry, but I was raised in Texas, I KNOW the attitudes of many of these cops, and it isn't pretty.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05578145425454731854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19963266.post-73706108526757487992014-12-15T22:00:26.476-05:002014-12-15T22:00:26.476-05:00I agree with much of what you state. However, I wo...I agree with much of what you state. However, I would argue that it is time we stop thinking of the police as the problem, and realize that it is people with bad attitudes and behavior who constitute the real problem in our society. In the two recent cases that sparked the waves of popular protests, tragic as they were for everyone involved, the victims might not have died if they had not resisted arrest. Now that doesn't mean that an excessive amount of force wasn't used, but situations like these can easily spiral out of control when everyone is pumped up on adrenaline. If the parties involved in these altercations had treated each other with respect and had maintained good attitudes, things probably would have turned out differently. In addition to people having bad attitudes (both citizens and law-enforcement officers), it may be our laws that are at fault and that people need to be better educated about them. We should work together in a postive manner to improve the entire system for all people.Steven Triselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615678295573192682noreply@blogger.com