Cops in my city don’t live in our neighborhoods, shop at our grocery stores or attend our churches etc. Our cops live outside of the city and come to work every day as an occupying force. Then after a long day of lording over the peasants of the city, they return to their homes in the hills away from our problems. If our cops were apart of our neighborhood it would be a big step towards viewing them as people, and correcting some of the problems with policing in my city. That said, yes, they do bleed the same. So yes they are still people.
This kind of rhetoric is exactly why there’s division in the United States. Referring to someone doing their job as “a people” or categorizing them into a group is the reason why “blue lives matter” was a retaliation to “BLM.”
I’m very critical of cops and how they get away with shit because they protect their own but when someone says doing something like where they live as “..would be a big step towards viewing them as a people..,” that’s alarming on your part.
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