Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they’re still struggling with what happened
Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they’re still struggling with what happened
The police are also not the people you want to be on the same side as.
That depends. When police kneel in solidarity with protestors, when they ask for bodycams and advocate for accountability, then I side with those police. When they repel a mob trying to overthrow the US Election which removed Donald Trump from office, I side with those police.
Those same police are the ones who bash protestors heads in with batons, lift their hood to block their cars cameras, and lie to cover each other. The bad apples have spoiled the bunch.
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And if they bashed a minority protesting against oppression? Which let’s be honest, is the more likely outcome compared to once in a lifetime event.
Advocating for the police to beat up people is not a win.
The vast majority of protests and responses to protests in the USA are peaceful, with the George Floyd nationwide (and international) protests being some of the statistically most peaceful protests in the nation’s history.
We cannot tolerate the intolerant. We cannot be peaceful with the violent. That is why we need police, all of the issues you pointed out are because police are not held to a high standard of accountability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incidents_during_George_Floyd_protests
That is the biggest list I have ever seen on Wikipedia in my life.
There were over 10,000 protests and you found 140 problematic events, or a rate of 1.4% but likely much lower when you consider the problematic events probably happened during the same protests as others.
Read better next time, that’s 140 attacks against journalists. Not 140 attacks in total.