If anyone who isn’t a cop is subject to being spontaneously murdered because cops see us as their enemies then maybe it’s not out of line for every single American to consider cops as their enemies.
Seriously, the cops need to start acting like Americans instead of the armed force that’s occupying America.
Great. So when someone is breaking into your house at 2 am who are you going to call? Not the police I hope if that’s the way you feel. That would be rank hypocrisy. Saves on my tax dollars if we need less police
When police spokespeople refer to police interaction with the public and they mostly refer to the public as 'civilians' not citizens. Them it is a safe assumption that the police in large part depict the public as the 'enemy'. May go back to the 60's when police started hiring officers straight out of the military without adequate decompression time and transition to alter the mindset that civilians are the enemy. All conflicts since the 60's in large part pitted US forces against an enemy entrenched deeply in the civilian population so forces could not definitely determine the enemy until they got first licks in. From Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan forces have to deal with deaths by seemed civilian. but in fact were enemy combatants. Then they separate from service and enter police departments where without some time to decompress and retrain, the automatic reaction against an enemy that turn out is some schlub in a traffic stop shot for holding a cell phone.
Absolutely agreed. It's way past time for that.