Exactly Gary. The problems with Police, overall, is not a Race issue. It's the disrespectful actions of today's self entitled youth.
Listen Childen...Your are Not Special, you are Not Owed anything, you Don't get Automatic Respect, you earn it, and you Dont earn respect running to your Safe Place or Stroking your Therapy Animal! When confronted with obstacles, deal with it! Life is tough. Face it head on and Learn from your mistakes, become Productive, dont become part of the Problem...JJ
Not a Race Issue???
How would you, or I know???
I got along Great with the "Cops" in my Home town, with the exception of a couple Young Wise-assed ones they had for a short while. I was in a Small Town "Quakertown, PA", and everybody knew everybody. The Head Sgt "Jim Werner" used to scare me when I was a Teenager, by pulling me over when I'd get to town. Then once he'd get me pulled over, I'd find out he just wanted to know how Me & My Dad did in Buck season, or how the Bass or Trout were biting in Pike County. Then another one "Butch Felix" I had worked with Part Time at a Garage He managed, and used to go boating with Him & His wife, before he became a Cop. He had graduated with my older Brother, and they played Football together.
So Yeah, We all got along Great in My Small Home Town, but that doesn't mean most of the problem today isn't "Race". After all, I was White, the Cops were all White, aw Heck---The whole town was White. Actually we had one Black Girl in my High School Class of 1966. Her name was Bonnie Allen, and she was a Very nice girl, like most of her many Siblings, who ended up in just about every other High School Class at my school. Her Mother "Adele"worked with my Mother for many years at the Hosiery Mill, making Nylon Stockings. We used to pick wild mushrooms in the fields at their farm.
All this being so, We can't say it's lies that Black people in this country have to act a lot differently than White people do when there's a Cop in the area, just in case that Cop happens to be one of the Bad ones who are out there, because they certainly do exist, and rules need to be adjusted to stop the insanity that has just been getting worse & worse, and making it hard for the 99% Good Cops to perform their Duties.
My 2 Piasters,
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