The Return to School

Where is the ethical line? We can agree cops are annoying and generally stupid as a race. But I do have friends who happen to be cops. As individuals, they are not all assholes. I have friends who are becoming cops. They are not all assholes. Assholes will be assholes, whether or not they become cops. Being a cop does not make you an asshole and being an asshole doesn’t make you a cop.

That being said…

Criminals and suspects who can make cops look like idiots are always amusing. As long as no one gets hurt, right? When cops are shot, when they are killed, doesn’t that change something? Cops are still people. They have families and loved ones just like everyone else. They don’t deserve to die.

Maybe its just me, but cops, military, firefighters – they do things I can’t even imagine doing. My father and friends run into burning buildings to save people they don’t even know. Cops put themselves in the line of danger to protect the greater good. The military does the same thing. They do things trying to protect my country, my state, my way of life. They do things I can never imagine doing. Every time the news show soldiers returning home to their families I cry. Every time I think of the planes returning to Dover with soldiers draped in colors, I cry. And I honor them all for doing that. And I won’t apologize for that.

I’m willing to admit that Bucky Phillips may be innocent and that he is innocent until proven guilty. But enough is enough. This needs to end. People are being hurt. And its not funny anymore.

The local feeling is starting to change. Everyone is jumpy and trigger-nervous. They are tired of living with cops running all over their towns. They are nervous that a shoot-out will be how this thing ends. Maybe another man dies. But I pray it doesn’t come to that. And I don’t understand people who are still cheering Bucky on, who are laughing at the cops, who want him to keep going. They make me as mad as those people who hope all the military die in the Middle East.

Disagree with policies, hate the cops – I don’t care. But hoping people actually die. I’m not sure I can really ever support that.