On That Remarkable Moment Last Night in Ferguson Between Cpt. Johnson and Masked Protester

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7. What he did-

Police training is based upon stereotyping and de- humanizing. "The perp". "The attacker". This serves to turn a person into an object, and,while this is the best thing to do when dealing with dangerous criminals, the backlash is that it obstructs a cop's humanity and seeing a person as human. And, as well see all to well, a group of people becomes a mob which becomes a "potentially" violent entity, which creates brutality and overreaction by the cops who stereotypes, and the mob responds in like manner. But in situations like this where there is no threat of violence, just an upset person who has been taught through bitter lesson to treat a cop as a thing, Jackson did a very wise thing and made the situation for what it is - two people talking about the same thing. Not one stereotype talking to another stereotype. And this is how it should be.