{"id":15719,"date":"2015-07-28T07:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15719"},"modified":"2015-07-28T07:35:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:35:31","slug":"unquestioning-support-for-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/unquestioning-support-for-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Unquestioning Support for Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time cops commit another horrific act, the \u201cthin blue line crowd\u201d crawls out of the woodwork claiming that we need to have unquestioning support for cops: all cops, all the time, no matter the circumstances.  I thoroughly disagree, as does the following author.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0728cops\"\u2018Don\u2019t want to get hurt by police? Don\u2019t break the law.\u2019 Tis a common phrase among those who unquestioningly support law enforcement regardless of their proven track record of corruption and misconduct.<\/p>\n

Sadly the apologists are nearly as dangerous as the corrupt and abusive officers as they advocate for blind support of the badge. Many times, apologists will support censorship, become brutal, and even hold fundraisers<\/a> for cops who shoot unarmed people in the back!<\/p>\n

The badge and uniform are infallible in the blind eyes of those who are too afraid to question authority. Police kill, we are told, because they have to make it home to their families at night. Police only harm those guilty of a crime\u2026.if you don\u2019t want to get shot by police, don\u2019t break the law they say.<\/p>\n

Such asininity is unparalleled. However, it still doesn\u2019t stop the apologists from pasting some derivative of the Gene Wilder meme all over the internet every time a cop is caught smashing in some innocent person\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to break through to the apologist crowd, we have gathered 30 stories from our archives of examples in which police hurt innocent people, who never broke the law. Tragically, some of those hurt or killed were children; some were even disabled and mentally ill.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Sanders<\/a> had broken no law before he was chased down by a Mississippi cop who threw him to the ground and strangled him to death in front of family members.<\/p>\n

Esmeralda Rossi<\/a> was getting into the shower when two Arizona cops illegally entered her home, pulled her towel off, assaulted and arrested her as she screamed in horror \u2014 completely naked. Rossi had broken no law.<\/p>\n

Eric Wilson<\/a> was on his way home from his job at Lighthouse for the Blind when he was stopped by two Little Rock Police officers alleging he \u201cfit the description\u201d of a suspect. The fact that Wilson is legally blind did not stop these officers from assaulting a man who could not even see them\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have shared only three of the stories.  Click through for the other twenty seven.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time cops commit another horrific act, the \u201cthin blue line crowd\u201d crawls out of the woodwork claiming that we need to have unquestioning support for cops: all cops, all the time, no matter the circumstances.  I thoroughly disagree, as does the following author. \u2018Don\u2019t want to get hurt by police? Don\u2019t break the law.\u2019 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}