[Azure]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

No, when the police can run over a bunch of teens, most of them at worst chanting and the police are still being defended, these are the exact conversations that need to take place.

You won't come out and say it, but it's clear you value the life of the officer over those otherwise peaceful protesters, and that's the root problem of why this is happening. You're happy to point out they weren't "peaceful protesters" because maybe someone broke a window, maybe, but who cares? That's all it takes to run over them? Someone else broke a window so they forfeit their life for being in the same vicinity? This is how Breonna Taylor died, she was an acquaintance of a drug dealer and now she's dead for his deeds.

The good police that some people still hold hope exist would see that video and be like "What the ####, this officer just escalated the situation and put a bunch of teens at risk of death due to ego. Thank God he didn't kill anyone and now remove him from the force before he does."

I'm not being hyperbolic. Don't drive into a crowd. Just don't. Automatically any police officer who purposely does like this should be removed. Anyone who defends driving into a crowd like that needs to realize they have the exact biases that people are protesting against. It's not just the police, it's society allowing them to get away with this. We're part of the problem when we need to bend over backwards to try and paint the majority of people who got ran over as deserving of it because they chanted a little song...

I'm a bit confused here.

Are you saying the cops should just stop the car and wait? Till the protesters leave? You don't think they should feel threatened given the current climate? I'm not quite sure what you expect here.

Because it seems like you basically have created a scenario where no matter what the cops would do you would accuse them of stirring up sh&t.

Seriously, tell me what they should do. Tell me what you would do in that situation. Basic patrol, and people start banging on your car. Lets just ignore the fact that we all know that these protests can turn from banging on cars to breaking windows in a split second, because it seems like you can't handle talking about that.

Tell me what the cops should do.