Of course police lives matter.
Let’s be clear about the post I wrote last night. It wasn’t telling people not to support police. It wasn’t about cheering on the Dallas sniper. It wasn’t really all that much about what happened in Dallas at all.
When I said I don’t want to see police lives matter memes in my timeline, it means I don’t want to see them. I’m not telling anyone what they should and should not post.
There are a lot of things I don’t want to see in my timeline. I don’t want to see angry screeds about our president every time the man takes a breath. I don’t want to see Nancy Pelosi’s face, but I’ve been getting a lot of that, too. if I block everything I don’t want to see, I’ll at the same time block a lot I do want to see.
There are a lot of good cops out there. They risk their lives every day they put on the uniform. They use their TASER instead of their pistol if they possibly can. They do a difficult job, and I not only respect them, I look up to them because it takes a special kind of person to wear a badge.
Odds are overwhelmingly in favor of the eleven officers who were hit by sniper fire, five now fatally, were good cops. There’s no reason to believe otherwise.
I want the person(s) responsible for the sniper attacks caught, prosecuted, and brought to justice through our legal system. I can believe that and still believe what I wrote last night at the same time. This isn’t a zero-sum game.
