I'm done supporting cops, deputies, detectives, Law Enforcement in general. Here's TODAYS video...

[BlueStreak]

108. Just saw network news segment villainizixing Walter Scott. Completely misses key points.

They were making a big deal about Scott having a warrant out for unpaid child support. This is the same problem with the Ferguson shooting. Brown wasn't an angel either. But the point is there is a proper way to deal with child support deadbeats. And gunning them down in cold blood isn't the right way.

When I was growing up many decades ago, there was a program simply called The F.B.I., and its main purpose was to glorify everything the FBI does. The FBI has their own problem with disproportionate use of force. But back in those days, that TV program at least showed cops trying to wing the bad guy or shoot him in the knee. You never, ever saw any depictions of cops unloading 12 rounds on a guy who is already on the ground bleeding to death, and then walking over to put handcuffs on the dead guy as if to underscore that even dead, he was still a mortal threat to everybody. Even though this TV program was J Edgar Hoover's version of Fox News, the moral of the program was that it was the FBI's job to apprehend the bad guys and then let Lady Justice take it from there.

What a different world we have now. The irony is that the crime rates are not higher. We don't have a city scape that is out of control, requiring nothing short of military tactics.

The thing that is not discussed to any significant degree by "big media", and the politicians they embrace, is the role that the militarization of America has played in turning so many police forces into robo-cops. If we dig into it, there is no doubt we will find that many police forces are now dominated by men who did 3 or 4 tours in Iraq or Afghanistan, and that is where they learned to kill everybody dead and ask questions later.

This is what we have to deal with as a nation. It isn't so much a racial thing. The racial aspect comes from the fact that most of the troubled police forces are heavily white working in areas that are heavily minority. That just reminds them of their days in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I don't know if the individual officers in the most recent killings actually did time in the military. It doesn't really matter. What has happened is an evolution within these police forces to a war zone mentality. You don't have to fight in Afghanistan to get sucked up into that hysteria.