My concern is with people in general getting all worked up with anger towards Officer Powell...and then being foolish around other officers.
We must be real careful not to pin this on ALL officers...
heck, think through this message board...do negative actions of any individual poster reflect the views of all the posters on this board?
Pinning this on the Police = to being prejudiced for or against any specific race. Let's do our best to NOT go down this path.
I can hope that we can all judge this incident on its own and act accordingly.
I tend to be defensive towards the police, while critical towards individual officers who cross the line. Again, these guys perform a challenging task and they never know how a traffic stop will go...
This incident reflects poorly on this individual officer.
Let me ask, when we see some crime reporting on the news, do we blame whatever association that the criminal has, or do we blame that individual criminal?
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