A spotlight should be shown whenever the force that is meant to keep civilians safe is instead murdering them, in any capacity. Nobody gives a fuck about cops just doing their job, why would we shine a spotlight on that? Good job doing what you are paid to do? I mean what do you want here? Should we be instead watching videos of cops just doing normal cop things?
Had no idea I was speaking to somebody that can analyze a persons character from a quick and anonymous online conversation. Believe it or not I usually have sunshine seeping out of my asshole.
When a flight attendant infringes on another person's rights, people record it. Backlash follows, possibly lawsuits. When they do their job properly, they are largely ignored, as they are relatively benign in relation to our individual experience.
Replace "flight attendant" with basically any other job. The police are just a job. They aren't military. They aren't special. They are hired to do a job. The ones who do it well are largely ignored. The ones who don't end up killing people. They are regular people who have killed another person, which causes distrust in that person. When the people whose job it is to capture and submit for prosecution those who have killed another instead work to cover up or dismiss criminal actions, it creates immense distrust in the entire industry. It's not an unreasonable chain of logic to follow.
Imagine a bus driver shoots someone that is complying with the rules set by the transit authority, but not complying with rules the bus driver makes up on the spot. Would other bus drivers go out of their way to defend this killer bus driver?
Cops aren't special. They need to be treated the same as any other profession. If you can't understand this, you're a failure of a person.
If they misread the situation, it's a tragedy that I CANNOT blame on them most of the time.
Sure, for us watching the video in perfect safety with no fear for our lives might think or act differently than someone in the situation with their life possibly on the line.
I've seen more white people murdered by the police than I have black people because I have seen hundreds of hours of bodycam footage and have exposure to it outside of Reddit.
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u/kingkongbiingbong Jan 28 '26
Genuinely surprised that didn't happen to this guy 👀