Police Have a Mob Mentality Problem

It’s now more apparent than ever that cops are rioters — not peacekeepers.

Photo from New York Times

Right now, all across America, violent mobs are taking to the streets.

They’re carrying weapons. They’re concealing their identities. They’re acting as if they’re above the law.

In virtually every city in America, these mobs are marking their territory, trying to make it clear that they’re not backing down. Wherever they march, pain, suffering, and outrage follow.

I’m speaking, of course, about the police.

American police officers are engaging in the very same ‘mob-like’ behavior that they claim to be suppressing.

America is hurting.

Racial tensions erupted last week after a cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck until he asphyxiated. Floyd was Black. His attacker was Caucasian. It’s the latest in a dire list of Black lives taken by police, a list that grows longer every week. Even though their names are immortalized in hashtags and protest signs, their deaths have carried little legal weight. Their killers walk free.

So, with all the irony of a Shakespearean tragedy, the cops responded to complaints…