Black Lives Matter Movement - Killing Cops is not the Way
Cops and truck drivers have a lot in common:
1)The job is not that desirable. 2)The pay is not that great. 3)The hours are long. 4)no one wants to do the job, but everyone has an opinion of how the job should get done with no prior experience to validate their ideals. 5)The procedure of how the job should get done makes completing the task near impossible. 6)The job is extremely hazardous. 7)It only takes 5% to make the other 95% look bad.
This article reminds me of 1930's Germany, the brown shirts were thugs wreaking havoc in the streets to the point that the cops were engaging in gun battles with them. The New Black Panthers are now threatening to engage in gun battles with cops if their demands aren't met. This Black Lives Matter movement is using the same sort of language as the New Black Panthers, "Freedom Justice and Equality or Death" is a very threatening statement to end their list of demands. Oh, and here's a heads up for them. The police do have an Internal Affairs Investigation division to investigate officers for misconduct and crimes, as well as the FBI does investigations on law enforcement officers for the same reason. Did you happen to notice that cops aren't being accused of police brutality by honest hard working citizens? That's because they are out there fighting crime, and the ones accusing cops of police brutality are the ones with criminal records. If a person acts like a criminal then they should expect to be treated like a criminal. People that act respectable haven't come forward and cried police brutality. Cops and truck drivers aren't enemies. As an OTR truck driver for 23 years I have dealt with a few cops that may have had a bit of a bad attitude, but the majority of them have treated me with the respect that I deserve. As for the ones that may have had a bad attitude, I chalk that up to having a bad day. Just look at what they have to deal with on a daily basis, then you may understand where they are coming from. After all how many truck drivers have given shippers and receivers a hard time for the same reason? Basically the word police means to keep order, as a Christian man I understand that God is of order and we need to keep order to have a functioning society. Chaos is an adversarial effect, it is ungodly and anyone that wants to threaten cops lives if they don't get their way way is not of God, but of the adversary. Black lives do matter, cops lives matter, all lives matter! Good people don't just threaten the lives of other people when they don't get their way. Good people don't engage in criminal behavior as gainful employment. Therefore, I stand with the cops on this issue, and if there is a real issue with police brutality in this country, we need to look at police procedure and the way cops are being trained to correct the issue. There is always a proper process to handle a situation and threatening to kill cops is definitely not the way.