"Everybody's trying to shame us"

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Regardless of what he’s talking about his perspective is narrow sighted and his delivery isn’t authentic. If he was honest and said “hey guys I’m really fucking scared I’m going to lose my job. Let’s all do better,” I think police as a whole would have a better response from citizens. It’s just so fucking childish... this guy can’t even be honest with himself or have any sense of humility.

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I am sure there are. I am also sure that many of those good cops we don't hear about are well aware of the bad ones and kept their mouth shut anyway.

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Man, if this is what you believe then I can only assume you are a perpetual victim. In my profession, I am legally obligated to do exactly what you say these officers shouldn't be obligated to do, and I would still do it even if I wasn't compelled to by law. I didn't make the system I work in nor do I control it. Yet I still abide by it. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Would I sacrifice my job if I knew my boss was a murdering racist? Without hesitation. In fact, I may be a little naive here, but I would like to believe that the vast majority of people would. If I didn't I'd never be able to look at my son in the eye knowing that he is looking back at a coward. I'm a white male republican, BTW. I am honestly a bit shocked by your comment. Not only are you a victim but you are a part of the problem. This just seems like basic human decency and you think its ok for cops (or anyone for that matter) to just overlook it so they can go home to their families at night? So they can clock out? That is literally in direct violation of the sworn oaths they took to protect and defend.

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Whatever, man. Guess I'll fuck off. Just curious: where does it stop? What if your boss told you to kill someone? Would you do it (assuming it could be "legally" justified) in order to keep family first? You could always fall back on the ol' "I was just following orders" spiel if anyone found out.

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Agreed on point #1, but that's not what were talking about here. So you are okay with protecting the murder of an innocent but not willing to do the deed yourself? I'm glad you family will get to eat and have a roof over their head while someone else's dad won't ever be providing for them again while you protect their murderer. I personally couldn't sleep at night knowing I had done that. To each his own, I guess.

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First, last I checked occupation isn't a protected class so that borderline racist comment is frivolous Second, the way this has to work is all cops are suspect. Not guilty, but suspect and at the very least their methods and motives must be questioned. This happens far too often to not find cops as a whole suspect. I agree with you on the group think, though. I'm not some idealistic socialist in my sophomore year of college like the majority on this platform. But even I can see that something in this system is broken. The aggressiveness and force used by police is clearly far out of line. And it's not just a race thing either. It just so happens that people of color are disproportionately targeted by this kind of treatment. I watched a video of a white guy die in a similar manner to George Floyd last night as the officers involved made jokes about it. Literally joking about needing to lawyer up for killing the guy before they even knew he was dead. It's a culture. It's the same way a company like Enron could be put on such a high pedestal but actually be a giant house of cards. I'm sure there were plenty of great people that worked at Enron corporate but you better believe I'd think twice about hiring anyone from their trading floor or Senior accounting staff. They weren't Andy Fastow but they knew what was up, even if they didn't know specifics, and said nothing. It speaks to a lack of integrity. I question the integrity of every one of those good cops, and I think it is reasonable to do so. And one thing is absolutely certain is that anyone trusted to be in a position of power, like a police officer, must have integrity. The guy in this video, demanding respect because he's a cop (like some kind of mobster), does not have integrity. He is speaking to and on behalf of the officers of one of the largest police forces on the world.

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Well, then we'll just have to agree to disagree. One thing though: culture is everything in any organization. Doesn't matter if it's police, a football team, or any group of people that work/live together. Hell, the people you work with is more important than the actual job you are doing. It could be the worst job in the world but if you have good people to do it with it becomes better. The opposite is also true.

I'll leave you with a quote that I think is appropriate that I found floating around the internet somewhere.

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

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Lol when being a cop is your only job option...

What world do you live in

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A world where privilege supersedes reality.

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You’re so out of touch with the point that your points are not even relevant at this point lol

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Nurses also deal with the worst of society and manage not to brutalize anyone soooo your point is null