It is hard to say whether the George Floyd matter is racial, a personal vendetta, or both (the officer and G. Floyd were co-workers at one time). Whatever it is . . . it was outrageous.
I got the living shit beat out of me by the police once before, and I'm white as snow. And for no reason to be quite honest with you. Punched me in the face, back, head, tased me, beat me with the sticks, and after they had me on the ground cuffed and motionless they still proceeded to beat the living shit out of me with their sticks and fists.
There's a police brutality problem in this country, for sure. That is without question. It's massive and it's systemic. It's not just a few bad apples. It's the entire police culture that is rotten to the core. The police are over-militarized, trained poorly, and vetted poorly. Just about any dumb asshole can become a police officer if they really want to. It's not that hard. Believe me, I know more than a couple of them. And the culture inside the police department where they lie and cover for each other in order protect the shield and protect their "brothers" breeds bad police officers that abuse their powers. Not everyone that becomes a police officer is cut out to actually be a police officer. They are suppose to serve and protect the public. Unfortunately in far too many cases they protect themselves first and forget the serve the public part. Shoot first, ask questions later. That's not what the job is meant to be. It's a public service. A noble one at that. And it's a dangerous, unforgiving, thankless job. But it's a job that someone chooses. Nobody makes you become a police officer. There are risks associated with the job, and if you can't properly deal with those risks then you shouldn't be a police officer. It's way too militarized, way too right wing, and way too protected and held unaccountable.
And there are way too many former military service members that come home suffering from PTSD and just go right into the police force and take out their issues out on the public instead of not working and being in hardcore therapy for years like most of them need to be.
My view is there is a huge police problem in this country- and it disproportionately affects black people. There are more white people total beaten and killed by police officers every single year in this country, but there are a lot more white people in this country. In terms of % of population, blacks are disproportionately abused by police. But they use excessive force and abuse their powers and beat the snot out of white people and shoot and kill white people too. I experienced it first hand.
The US is an over-militarized, over-policed, penal colony. No other country in the entire freaking world has as many people in prisons and jails or as high of an incarceration rate. And blacks are disproportionately affected by a completely ass backwards screwed up system.
