The Law, Police, and Respect

A diffuse thread through the news of late involves individuals taking it upon themselves to impart their distinctiveness into a situation which is not their purview.

I'm talking about individuals mentioned in the news reporting who have refused service to police officers, placed glass in the food of police officers, and engaged police officers in sniper activity causing their deaths.

The compound tragedy involves those harmed being people other than those stated as perpetrating acts which caused the behaviors in the first place.

It is a sullen note that murder is deemed an appropriate response to anything. This twisted view of justice is becoming pervasive as revenge supplants the legal system with each subsequent lawless gloom and doom scenario.

While I will never condone the abrupt shooting of a person stopped by the police nor will I support another person embedding their knees into the chest of an arrestee on the ground surrounded by six officers ...

the bottom line is those mistreating police officers will eventually be called out on their transgressions as well.

This repeating news of individuals overstepping their boundaries in civil society will itself eventually be met with deadly force by those who support and respect the law.

These stupid notions of retribution are better left to people who don't sling fast food and work in service industries. The police are not public targets for idiots with an axe to grind.

Leave those value judgements to the courts because the bulk of those making them are ill advised and creating what will eventually become insurmountable problems for themselves.