mozzaok
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Most cops are good decent people, and unlike you good folks, I am no saint, and have been arrested plenty.
I have been beaten and tortured(minor level stuff, but still not what you would wish to experience by choice) by bully arseholes in uniform, so I know better than you guys what they can do, but I still know the vast majority do not like their behaviour, but they do cover for them, to maintain solidarity and a sense of camaraderie that is really necessary.
One policeman who had violently abused me, later on was murdered by a disgusting criminal, and I must admit at the time I heard it on TV, I did think, F' you, you piece of shite, you got what you deserved. That was stupid childish, small minded vindictiveness, on my part, he may have deserved to go to jail, but he did not deserve to die, and I hope his murderers die in jail, but I fear that one day, they will be released, by a system, way to soft on violent thugs. His partner, reported as a much loved family man, I had never had dealings with, but all seemed to agree he was nothing but a good man, with not a bad word said of him, much more like your average officer. The point is, I have met pretty much the typical, "bad egg", elements in policing, and can assure they are not in any way typical, and people who carry on that all cops are bad, are small minded imbeciles, who blame their own bad behaviours on everybody else.
So I do not believe in the racist, bigoted bullies, narrative, that way too many elements try to use against them. The people, that do that, make every excuse under the sun for the crims, but accept no allowances ever be made for the pressures and dangers that police encounter a great deal in their careers.
We do not know the details of this yet, and anyone already baying for blood, or allocating blame based on a stupid us vs them ideology, should be highlighted as the only "bigoted" ones we actually know about, so far, in this story.
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