4 people who make around $50,000 per year and probably never see their families, just laid down their lives today while serving a warrant to a criminal. After all of that, the memory of their service now faces an angry mob of Americans who just want to continue calling law enforcement a bunch of murderers.
If your children want to grow up to serve the community as law enforcement officers, just tell them to become CNA’s at retirement homes, instead. They can protect and serve the community, while defending them against the kind of abuse that no one is addressing in America. In their off time, they can work at soup kitchens, where they can protect and serve the homeless. No one is talking about how homeless lives matter, either. Apparently, only criminal lives matter to everyone now.
While I completely agree with your second paragraph and much of it deeply resonates with me, I gotta point out that "laid down their lives" is far too passive to describe what the average cop is doing at a scene like this.
You do realise you'd trade one group, who have rules they mostly follow, and consequences they occasionally face, for multiple warring groups that have no rules, right?
I bet if you offered any of these people a job as a police officer, they would stop all of their comments, accept the job, and act like they never said anything against law enforcement.
That literally gave a German gangster a legit excuse for killing a police officer (really, really rare over here that policemen get shot, really rare) when police stormed his house early morning and forgot to call out their profession. He shot one of them as he thought they were from an enemy gangster gang (those gangsters have stressful lives, don't they).
German court acquitted him due to justifiable self protection.
Some of the officers who rushed to the Charlotte neighborhood to rescue the first wave of downed officers were wounded as a second shooter began firing on them after they killed the wanted man,
Given that they would have been arriving in police cars, with lights and sirens, I'm pretty sure the shooter knew.
Did anyone check to see if they had Drugs in their System? Any history of Abuse? Was it an act of Self Defense? Were the other people Scared? Let's give these Officers the same Respect they give LITERALLY anyone THEY Kill!
