JUST SAY'n: I've seen, presumably, well meaning people saying that the Black community needs to develop a "relationship" with the police officers(specifically white) who service their communities. Others, myself included, have maintained that it is law enforcement's responsibility to sensitize their officers to the needs of the communities that they patrol so that they officers are not servicing those communities while in a heightened state of fear and anxiety that promotes the type of trigger happy responses that we've seen recently in Ferguson and Cleveland in addition to the racial profiling and excessive force videoed in the Eric Garner death.
That said, check out what this officer does when a grandmother is caught stealing to feed her hungry family. Doesn't condone stealing on any level, but he didn't overreact with violence either...JUST SAY'n
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