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I don’t like BLM or ALM

Honestly it comes down to the officers safety.

So many of us who have never been in that situation on either side can’t see the perspective of an officer or a civilian in these tense scenarios.

Most people without a doubt will jump on the bandwagon of being “woke”

Bethany and or Braydon have probably never been in a situation where they only have seconds to react with two possible outcomes to pick from.

1: I want to protect myself, at this moment nothing else matters but to survive and see my family another day.

Or.

2: I’m going to do what ever it takes to appease clueless people with subjective views on social media.

There’s a specific reason why some officers refuse to patrol predominantly minority neighborhoods. Any thing they do is because of “racism” and some secret plan to it eradicate minorities 1 by 1 every few months...

Now of course it’s harder for me to relate because o don’t know anyone who was unjustly or even justly killed by an officer for that matter.

However I personally know 5 officers killed on the line of duty and two who were inured on the line of duty.

So I never could see myself being one for Black Lives Matter but I also hate people saying All Lives Matter.

Too many people are tallying up what race does what and using that as fuel to make a “So Ha!” Attack on one another.

Nobody is going to change others until they stop and think where they need to change themselves.

And all this crap about everything and one is racist has really devalued the term racist. It’s so watered down by over use of things and people that are not even remotely close to racist that the word has lost its meaning. This is why so many people are fed of with these movements and protests and the fallout that happens to come from them.

Do I blame these people? No. And remember, in 2016 a lot of people were fed up with a lot of these same things prior to the election. These things make people vote away from these causes because they are not really helping anything.

I find these movements albeit BLM or ALM thinking they’re helping the wound heal by peeling the scab off.

But a scabbing wound is already healing. Instead of throwing a tantrum over every god damn thing someone else does, focus on your success and live your life and you will realize that a lot of what’s being mentioned is happening at a very minuscule amount.
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I’m the sister of a retired black police officer. And even [b]he[/b] knows that the culture is such that police are encouraged to profile people of color. To the point that even [b]he[/b] has found himself being treated like a criminal by police in other cities when not in uniform. A police officer would certainly know how to behave around other police to try and diffuse a situation. But among people determined to see you as a threat, it doesn’t always matter [b]how[/b] you behave. So, my brother certainly knows what police deal with, because he faced the public—just like other cops—with the extra added bonus that some see him as a "traitor".
[b]And[/b] he knows what black men deal with—one up on the "Blue Lives Matter" crowd. 😳