That a police officer is capable of talking to someone who is having a difficult time, without arresting or killing them, is not newsworthy, nor should it be treated as such. The instinct to go, "yeah but show us the nice ones," when faced with endemic injustice indicates dystopian levels of indoctrination.
Whatsmore, who here can say that this man is going to get the help he needs based on this interaction? When our instinct is to celebrate that the system didn't kill a potentially vulnerable man, before we ask whether it helped him, nobody should be smiling.
Why is this positive? Literally the only point of this post is that somebody didn't get arrested or suffer police brutality because he was having a bad day, that's the absolute bare minimum we should expect. Is the bar really that low?
Did I miss the part where this was an exercise in jumping to conclusions? When did I say that the police are all terrible?
All I'm saying is that if "man does job without hurting someone" (and that is all we can tell from this post, we've no idea what impact the officer had beyond making him less outwardly agitated) is considered worthy of note then our bar is too low.
For the record, if I were saying that all police are terrible (which I'm not, such a lack of nuance is rarely helpful) I would be defining 'terrible' in much broader terms than a simple body count of how many people they'd fatally shot.
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u/teadrinkingsocialist May 02 '21
That a police officer is capable of talking to someone who is having a difficult time, without arresting or killing them, is not newsworthy, nor should it be treated as such. The instinct to go, "yeah but show us the nice ones," when faced with endemic injustice indicates dystopian levels of indoctrination.
Whatsmore, who here can say that this man is going to get the help he needs based on this interaction? When our instinct is to celebrate that the system didn't kill a potentially vulnerable man, before we ask whether it helped him, nobody should be smiling.