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[Midnightwalk]

112. That's an assumption I wish would change

I’m not saying I don’t or wouldn’t be acquiescent to cops. But I also am old and white and don’t have a personal enough understanding of the resentment that people of color have. People are rightfully outraged.

Your statement that “ Once the cop starts to reach for you to take you into custody ... That's too late!“ is an assumption about police behavior that should change.

We’re so used to cops not having a duty to deescalate that we reflexively assume that’s the case. I think that assumption is one of the things that needs to challenged as we see videos like this even if the victim may be safer not doing that as it occurs.

There’s a similar assumption about police committing assaults or vandalism like stabbing the tires on those parked cars. We ought to be talking about criminal cops when they do those things, not bad cops.

I usually don’t fully get language discussions, but the events of the past weeks really cemented the idea that the way we discuss police behavior is wrong and excuses what should be inexcusable.