Ft Worth police officer shoots woman to death inside her home

Tapxe said

Not quite whistling past the graveyard or any of that other stuff you say. Just asking we stop jumping to conclusions based on stereotypes. I'm all for calling out poor policing and holding them accountable. I just want to see where the system goes and so far the system in this case seems to be doing the right thing.

Let's acknowledge that and just wait. If it turns out as you fear, then yes, time to act once again.

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I was going to reply to LC but this works
By all means let’s deal with the stereotypes, but acknowledge that ‘hero cop’ is a deeply embedded part of our national mythos that needs to be unpacked
Police have always been agents of the state/status quo
If the state is being a good actor, then cool
If the state is propping up slavery or enforcing Jim Crow or killing people who are organizing for fair labor or arresting people for being gay or encouraging school to prison pipeline or any other regressive policy - that needs to be examined

In popular culture, we have the 70s as a time of overwhelming skepticism about policing - that was certainly not the only era with an abundance of police malfeasance
So we need to look at the propaganda that lifts cops above civil servants to blue shield white hats