PhosphorusDecree wrote:
Cross-purposes detected! Is this about the Capitol riots rather than the BLM riots? Law enforcement people seem to veer rightwards politically in most countries. So I can imagine it was an existential shock for many of them to face down a violent coup attempt from Republican supporters. Whereas facing down angry African Americans and liberals would have been stressful but supported their worldview, if anything.
(Not saying this to mock them, btw - I have right-wing moderate friends in my own country, and it feels like party loyalty has suckered them into accepting the extremists in the Conservative Party.)
You may be right - but there could also be more.. like they may feel so hopeless working for superiors & government bosses above them who failed to prepare properly given the risk assessment and advanced notice of probable violence.. and then when things went bad, from the highest levels of government, help was intentionally delayed for hours.
Then after the riots, for many elected officials to pretend nothing happened - they were just tourists visiting the building.. wow - completely minimizing the 140 injured police and 5 dead in order to pander to an ex president's cult members. What a slap in the face to those who protected and served that day.
How difficult it must be to put your life on the line to do a job for people not willing to do the basics to protect your life. I could totally understand feeling deep despair over all of this.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.