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I don't think that BLM represents the "black community" any more than Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. If I believed that they did, I might become an enemy of the "black community". First, I don't accept that there is a monolithic black community any more than there is a monolithic white community. However, I know that there are many whites who believe in a monolithic black community. They're called bigots. They think and act on the basis of prejudgments about what blacks are and what they think and do as blacks. Sadly, there are blacks (especially in the BLM) who have precisely the same prejudices against what they perceive to be a monolithic white community. Thus, I sometimes find myself painted with the same brush as bigots and I resent that treatment. Luckily I understand it. Other whites become angry and their sympathy for their black neighbors is diminished. In other words, treat a person like an enemy and they become an enemy...

My response is directed towards both sides of this, BLM cannot go around vandalizing effigies meant to show support to police who might not have had anything to do with what they're complaining about. It takes credibility away from the protesters, and only makes the public more incensed against them. What are you complaining about if the local PD IS doing all it can to do the right things to keep the peace? Doing all they can to make justice an equal things regardless of race or social economic status? Now cops cannot have it both ways either. You cannot go around on a power trip demanding that the populace supports you for a profession that you chose to do, while you continually do wrong against the same populace. Michael Brown had a "tribute" to him in Ferguson. It was "taken down" by the police. What message are you sending? What message are you sending to the populace when they do a crime to you, they're looking at an instant long bid, life sentence, and in some states death? But the police who have been proven in court to have killed (murdered) people get slaps on the hand in comparison to the civilian populace. The idea that a job title, badge, or anything else makes your life worth more than mine is ignorant, stupid, and only leads to trouble. The proven notion that "Professional Courtesy" and "The Thin Blue Line" trumps equality between the Police and the Policed is also wrong. No civilian can use "I feared for my life" or any of the other catch all standard cop comments when they do wrong and get away with it. It's an instant get out of jail free card for crooked police, and before anyone says it's not, look at the cases from the last two years where the use of force was questioned and see what the police themselves said, or the police union said.
I love cops more than the average person maybe. I'm harder on them maybe because I was an MP. But I'm also Black, and some of the ignorance portrayed on that side needs to stop also. If one can fear for their life and take another, then it should be allowed both ways. There in that statement is an inherent flaw; civilians cannot be afraid for their lives when it comes to the police. But by the Supreme Court, cops are under NO obligation to protect me or anyone on this site. They are to protect the law, and we're a sideshow that maybe gets the benefit of them protecting the law while protecting us.

This group has no credibility with me or many who I know share my beliefs. Until they admit that black on black violence is the REAL cause of higher than normal homicide rates on blacks, they will have no credibility with me or anyone else who does some cursory digging into the subject.

Are American police more militaristic and "Us vs Them" than decades prior? Of course. Do they abuse their authority and power more than decades prior? Yes. However, they are NOT the cause of high murder rates among the black community.

Anyone who would deny others the right to free speech and opinions, has even less credibility in their own movements.