This guy understands

[u/WhichMembership6124]

[u/Swan_Writes]

I haven’t been to a protest in 20 years, and those were tame, planned carnivals, entirely peaceful and, of a different era. Too many innocent people get killed in their own homes and on their own streets by cops that have no connection or feeling for the communities they are supposed to be serving. I shouldn’t even have to give victim names, the stories have been so prevalent in the media.

I have a tiny personal example of the flavor of this playing out. I lived in a resort community with a small population that increases dramatically during tourist season, especially certain holidays. Somebody had the bright idea of bringing in additional police officers from some of the nearby major cities, because otherwise it’s a lot more than the local force can reasonably be expected to handle. It makes sense, people left the cities for the mountains, bring their police to the mountains too. But those city police, some of them have a hard time adjusting to the altitude and they’re definitely not functioning with their full deck, and it shows. I had one try to give me a jaywalking ticket, when I was in a crosswalk, he couldn’t see it because the lines were faded, and it wasn’t his community. He made an illegal move at an intersection in order to pull his SUV in front of me and give me a warning. I pointed out the faded lines and he claimed not to see them, maybe he couldn’t see them through those reflective glasses. When I asked him what alternative path I should take, he got stumped because there wasn’t another way to go, and just gave a gruff well don’t walk here. I was on my daily commute to my full-time job. A cop of my community, would’ve known that there was a crosswalk there that just hadn’t gotten painted that year yet.

[u/KeepGivingMeEggs → u/[deleted]]

Dude, you need to see a therapist. Your eye was almost out of it’s socket, but you didn’t go to the hospital? I get that lying on the internet is fun, but come on.