One can question the nature of some of the recent deaths at the hands of police without rooting for someone to go out and shoot a police officer. Or does the First Amendment no longer apply where police actions are concerned and is everything a police officer does appropriate?
Yes, one can question without rooting, and I know of no one who has rooted for this - and it would be unacceptable and unconscionable if someone did root for this.
Yet it seems that some here have only an either/or mentality: You either never question or if you do then you hate cops.
This strategy doesn’t destroy you, my and others’ right to question or our First Amendment rights, but it is Ad Hominem that is meant to effectively gut questioning and thus do a round about against our First Amendment rights.
That is all from me today. Have to go.
Thanks for the input!
American cops kill Americans at a rate 40x that at which German cops kill Germans.
Obviously there are differences in how these stats were compiled and big differences between American and German society.
But it does seem to me that big a difference implies pretty strongly that too many Americans are killed by cops. Without prejudging any of the individual incidents.