11 officers shot, 1 bystander shot during protests over recent shootings

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Wyrdness said:

tokilamockingbrd said:

are you a cop? or been in the military?

I am in the military, so thankfully I dont have to deal with this all the time, however when I was deployed to Iraq I came to understand howsomeone could feel this way.

We worked with the Iraqi police regularly. One of the other LTs in a different company was doing the same thing I did when out of the blue one of those Iraqi police shot him in the back of the neck. Needless to say from then on when working with them I never let one out of site and kept my weapon in a position when I could easily defend myself if need be. Thankfully I never had a situation where I felt threatened, but if I had I would have chosen to protect myself.

Except we don't care how someone comes to feel this way we only factor in whether someone should be policing being affected in a way you say, if he has this underlying bias towards a certain ethnic group when walking the streets which can lead to him killing an innocent than he shouldn't be policing plain and simple, in the UK he would not be allowed to police as being affected that much by an incident can lead to very bad decisions, should this guy make one mistake one day and people hear what you've just posted here it would be in the media as another racially bias cop itching to kill a black person. 

He would never admit to it affecting him, and of course it would cost him his job if he announced he was jumpy around black people.  I am stating is it is human nature(basic survival skills) to let past events affect the way you handle future circumstances. If you do not do this, well you lack basic survival skills and won't last long anyways (if you are in a position where your life is repeatedly in danger). I personally know 2 white cops who were murdered in cold blood (before this BLM mess) by black people. They only made local news. One was shot while trying to arrest someone, he was pursueing a young black man and when the young man reached behind him... he did not shoot, so he my friend is now dead. One was sitting in his car and a black man walked up and shot him in the head.

Cops are not eager to kill people. However, they want to stay alive. You said you are from the UK. you guys ended slavely earlier than we did and did a much much better job of intergrating former slaves into society than my ancestors did. My generation is now paying for their mistakes.