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Originally Posted by graciegirl

WHOA. I am supporting good and hardworking and fair Law enforcement officers. Why don't you see I am trying to show people that there are many who do not use any force unfairly. In drug areas and those of high crime there are many people who do NOT
want to get arrested and they will fight and run. I think that the holding down of people on the face and neck is necessary at times.

We ARE allowed to see GOOD in people. We do not need you or anyone to be our spiritual guide.

Keeping on with the idea that those who support Law Enforcement are passive aggressive is certainly not the case with most people who do. We see with our own eyes how brave most police officers are and how they could use a pay boost, most of them.

CAN you not see that there are thousands of police officers who are not like the one you are talking about. That isn't passive aggressive to speak of them. It hurts them and diminishes them to be thought to be cruel and unfair to people. It is wrong to think all in the group are like the ones in the group you don't like.

You have lived in places apparently that many of us have not lived and must have a different life experience from many of us. I told a police officer that lived next door in Hadley that we had lived in a fairly decent sized area just outside Cincinnati, and we had had one murder in twenty-five years. He didn't believe me. He said I just wasn't aware. He really didn't believe me. He had lived his life just outside NYC. I was accurate and truthful.

I wish those who want to discuss this situation would stop with the defense of police officers. THAT IS NOT THE CASE...I BELIEVE EVERYONE KNOWS HOW TOUGH THAT JOB IS AND RESPECTS WHAT THEY HAVE ON THEIR PLATE..THEY NEED NO DEFENSE AND FRANKLY I HAVE NEVER READ OR HEARD ANY....ANY CRITICISM OF THE POLICE IN GENERAL.

I realize you will blame me and my mindset, but each and every time something like this happens, at lease on this forum, we begin all the good things that police have done and relive the lives of the other guys as we dig for any dirt we can find.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS LISTEN.......the demonstrations, and again.....NOBODY LIKE THE LOOTING....but the demonstrations are to get attention to what is being said. Yes, the outside groups trying to use the demonstations and derail what is actually being said show up...the white supremicists etc. And it appears we pay more attention to them. It is like folks are simply deaf to the message. I read demeaning comments that are knee jerk reactions....they do not even know why the demonstrations and I suppose those who never have to worry about wearing a hoodie, jogging, etc because they have a black skin, simply pass this off.

Why are we not discussing the ongoing situation in our neighborhood and what might be done about it. Why are we not discussing why anyone with black skin is afraid to go out in a hoodie...see the Savannah story where a man out jogging was shot to death. It was because he was black.

Should not the injustice be discussed and LISTENED TO....we are spending our time simply talking instead of even understanding what these protests are about. We spend our time threatening....talking tough in stead of listening and trying to understand.

Every poster on here feigns understanding and if they post, you can be assured it will be about criticizing the police in general (NOT THE CASE), or will have a "BUT" and an addition about taking military force to Americans (not all for sure). Reading today that it is proposed to put tanks in the street......those folks are not listening, simply playing strong guy. Shallow thinking is not going to put this country back together.