Fuck police.

[oats]

don't be obtuse, @veritas. I was commenting on your several incorrect rephrasing of arguments in here instead of addressing them. it's lazy and self-serving. let go of the ego.

the idea that further militarization will happen because of this type of stuff is historically inaccurate, since it started long before Black Lives Matters was a thing, and never showed any signs of stopping or slowing down. Your arguments are lazy attempts at low-hanging fruit. The idea that it's weird to hold people who are paid through tax dollars to a higher standard than criminals and gangs deserves no recognition; it's stupid on the face. Nobody denies black-on-black crime, but the issue here is police brutality that disproportionately affects minorities. Gang violence and the like is not pertinent to that discussion, especially since a great deal of effort across the country has gone towards addressing those problems, whereas large demographics (mainly conservative whites) refuse to consider that police brutality is even an issue to begin with.

yes, killing cops is bad, but it is not a mutually exclusive belief to think that cops killing civilians is also bad.