Things are getting very weird in the US. The original "black lives matter" justification for the protests seems to have broadened out to a general "why are all police jerks to everyone" raison d'etre due to the scores of videos of them unjustifiably roughing up protesters of any colour.
The latest example - the shove to the old guy in Buffalo who stumbles backwards and hits his head on the pavement (with blood obviously flowing out) - is very remarkable for the way the police just seem to look at him and don't jump in to offer immediate assistance.
But as if Trump would have any idea what to do to encourage widespread police reform. As I posted recently (and had not realised before), the police unions had campaigned against Obama for (what I have read) were relatively modest reform initiatives.
As someone had written earlier this week (at Vox I think), the most accurate way to view it is that the police are counter-protesters. Maybe they are getting really upset about how the ubiquity of phone cameras is interfering so much with their traditional tactics?
That was disgraceful.
ReplyDeleteThe old guy wants to shake hands and id violently hit to the ground.
The cops should be charged.
What makes it worse is their colleagues saw nothing wrong with it and would not work in that unit because of the disciplinary action taken.
do they have any humanity?