We give idiocy too much air, but whatever floats your boat.

Helen, whoever gets shot by police for no reason is a tragedy. With Black Lives Matter, it's about racism. Those people are black, so no one will care much. We won't get into trouble. It's how the wild west mentality plays out. Justin Damond's murder wasn't less tragic. I don't know what the cop's excuse was in her case.

What it all comes down to is that wild west mentality. To poor training, and to police not being held accountable for murdering people. When people here say "defund the police", I don't think that's a good idea. I think that all police ought to have the same training, which ought to be overseen by people who know what they're doing. That social programs ought to be funded, so cops didn't have to be social workers, or EMTs, or any of the other jobs that are foisted on them now. That all that military-style equipment be sold so maybe we could buy some food for people. And that cops with balls turn their backs on that blue line of ass-covering and prosecute the shit out of the bad ones.

So it's not ONLY racism, but the combination with bad-cop-ism.