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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Yeah let’s be clear here.

I don’t hate cops.

I don’t want to see dead cops.

I like most police officers I meet.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad experience with CPS. Actually I can think of half a dozen good experiences with them. But then again I’m white.

When I say “cops” I clearly don’t mean all police officers worldwide. I mean the shoot first, judged by 12 than carried by 6, militarized blue wall of silence jerks who seem to have overwhelmingly been the types recruited by police forces

Not all cops who kill are inherently evil, training plays a major part. Obviously I don’t believe anyone who is a cop is born to kill.


Most importantly, it’s a sign of the respect i have for ALL HUMAN LIFE and how terrible unnecessary deaths are. The whole point of phrasing the statement in that fashion is to show the value (and cost) of our freedom. It’s meant to be jarring.

I first heard the phrase used by Jon Stewart, a NYC resident, who made reference to torture and 9/11. Think about how powerful that is. He legit could be a casualty if another 9/11 were to happen (these comments were obviously made years ago). So think about the respect Jon must have for human life if he’s willing to risk his own life to make sure an innocent man isn’t tortured to protect himself.

I feel the same way. I’d rather 1000 potential murderers go free than one innocent black man is killed by police. Even if one of those 1000 may do harm to me. (Some will argue I should have said this, they’re no different to me. Replace cop with regular civilian in my original phrase and all of a sudden it’s cool? Like wtf? isn’t it weird we think like that?)

And it offends people that I think cops should feel the same way? For their CHOSEN profession? I’m just a regular citizen and I seem to have a higher value on human life.

I only phrased the question the way I did in direct response to a purportedly common viewpoint among the militarized blue wall of silence jerks I referenced earlier that believe it’s BETTER THEM THAN ME. Meaning better a bunch of dead innocent black men than 1 dead cop.

So they treat life with so little respect but I’m the disgusting one? Yeah, gonna want to rethink your priorities here and evaluate who you’re actually siding with. (Hint: it’s the cops who kill black men at an alarming rate and have a total disregard the sanctity of human life, you know, the #######s that have dominated the news beating up old men, killing innocent black people and littering social media with their ties to white supremacy). It’s not that black and white obviously, many people who are anti torture don’t agree with Jon and just because you disagree with me, I’m not gonna say you’re racist. But I was responding to a post about cops who would rather 1000 dead innocent civilians than 1 dead cop (to use a similar statement to mine). I’m happy the side I chose.

Your post was actually quite clear the first time around, imo. But this is a great clarification as well.