By: Sad and Angry

Sad and Angry
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:29:51 +0000

What happened to George Floyd was deplorable, it was sickening to watch. The officer who did that does not deserve to walk the streets as a free man, let alone be a police officer. That being said, most police officers are good people, who just want to go to work and do their job to the best of their ability. They are human and they were told to keep the peace in downtown by their boss. They were probably terrified to be there. To get attacked or to misread a situation and do the wrong thing. Not knowing what would happen they went anyway to protect a peaceful demonstration. The violence has taken the conversation away from the deplorable things that happened and shifted it to the right to violently protest. It has taken the voice away from the peaceful protesters. I want the violence to stop, so we can get back to trying to figure out how that man was able to pass the psych test and become a police officer. What did we miss that allowed him to be on the streets "protecting and serving". The police should represent the best of us. They should be held to our highest moral and ethical standards. They should be paid well enough, so that there are more people willing to do the job and we can be more choosy about who is doing it. They need frequent mental health check-ups, especially if they are working really tough neighborhoods. The protesters deserve their say, but the police deserve to be there too. I'm sure they are just as angry as we are about this, but they are scared as well.