Reply to post: Re: What bothers me most is this one

As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence

Cederic Silver badge

Re: What bothers me most is this one

Look at it another way. There are hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers out on the streets at the moment in response to the protests and the riots.

If they all acted the way those five officers did, State Governors would be sending in the National Guard against the police. Don't pretend all those Democrat Governors would be cheering on police brutality at that scale.

Then there's the video footage of lots of police officers not attacking anybody. There are now years of bodycam footage showing police officers showing superhuman restraint and professionalism, and de-escalating difficult situations.

The police must be made to obey the law. Police officers that shield wrongdoers among their ranks should be disciplined and penalised. The wrongdoers must be prosecuted. The rest of them? There's a lot of difficult work being done extremely well.

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