Bingo, this is the cycle.
Yep yep, yes sir. People are too uneducated and too stubborn to actually do any proper research on just about anything. There is a reason the police have armored cars, heavier body armor, ARs, etc. People look at that stuff and cry police militarization without even knowing what 90% of stuff is even for or why they really have it.
They look at an AR15, they cry machine gun that can mow down a thousand babies in one trigger pull to oppress people. The real reason was because of the 1998 north Hollywood shootout when two bank robbers had home made body armor and full auto AKs, G3s, and AR types rifles and this was during the assault weapon ban mind you. Only swat had access to ARs at the time, all the police had were semi-auto handguns, maybe a revolver if they were older, and a shotgun. All of which were useless in stopping those two guys.
Body armor? Response to the same issue and also the fact that the number of people who want to kill police has gone up over the years.
Camo? Blame the fact that no one wants to make blue uniforms any more.
Police departments now all of the saddening buying all this stuff? Blame the War on Terror and the liberal handing out of grants by our federal government. There are some PDs that will never need an APC or an MRAP, but there are plenty that might like LAPD in the Heavy gang parts of town as well as
Detroit PD, Stockton pd, Oakland pd, etc.
Riot Gear? Blame the selfish people who are willing to destroy a half a city block to get a television. Or the people waiving che flags and smashing the windows of banks, and the people setting fire to cars and yelling "forget the government".
There is police brutality and racism, but the media makes it worse. Remember the SARS epidemic and how media said it was the worst epidemic every? I don't remember seeing land fills of dead sick people. Remember bird flu? I don't remember large quarantine zones. Swine flu? I don't remember there being a large death toll here on that either. Ebola, remember that? Bath Salts? That must have been the worst epidemic, am I right? I remember all the panic it created. Point is, the media likes drama. More drama means more entertainment, more entertainment means they have a product, when they have a product they can try produce it more and create more views. Fox, CNN, NY Times, they don't care about you, me, or racism. It's all about doing what it takes to get views for the all mighty green back.
You will catch more flies with sugar than you will with salt. Even Martin Luther King Jr said you have fight darkness with light and hate with love. Fighting police brutality with acts of violence and hate speech is just fighting darkness and hate with darkness and hate. Getting a proper education in law enforcement, going on ride alongs, peacefully demonstrating and writing to your politicians is the way to do it. Not slacktivism and not Violence.
