After the murder of five policemen in Dallas, one commentator said in his editorial, “Police officers are not like you and I. They’re better.” He was trying to be supportive and clever, but he was actually just fanning the flame of controversy between the policemen and Black Lives Matter. This commentator was an old white man. He was really fanning the flame of racism too, probably just like he did 50 years ago during the Watts riots in LA–over the same issue of cops vs. blacks.
Like it or not, what he was saying was that the policemen are right and the Black Lives Matter activists are wrong. Whenever a cop shoots a black man, the shooting is always justified because the cops are better than that black man. Unfortunately, he doesn’t understand that we have bad cops too. Some are arrogant; some are corrupt; and, some are racists. Some think only about living off the taxpayer’s dime all of their lives–while they’re working, and continuing into an early retirement, still at the expense of the taxpayers. They’re not better just because they’re in uniform.