What can Catholics do to stand up against police brutality?

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People need to stop crabbing about how the police are harming them, or whatever they cry about.
I’m not saying police brutality isn’t a problem, but it’s not as bad as these liberals want you to believe.
Maximilian75 said:
We can start by respecting law and order and giving police officers the nessecary asssistance and respect to do their jobs.
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Well said. Respect our police officers. :policeman:
 
Maximilian75 said:
We can start by respecting law and order and giving police officers the nessecary asssistance and respect to do their jobs.
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Like Philando Castile, who tried to be a good citizen by informing the officers that he had a firearm in his car? Oh wait.
 
I’m saying there is a lot of violence and abuse out there. Where and when do you think the church should start helping?
 
angel12 said:
Tell that to the families of those who have been injured or killed.
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Sure there might be a couple cases where a police went too far, but shouting about it or exaggerating it, will only cause harm for police officers and everyone else. It will cause respect for police to go down.
There also are many instances where police have been brutally murdered. And why? Partly because people just don’t have enough respect for them right now.
 
BridgetN said:
The Church could help by instilling proper respect for God-given authority into her faithful.
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We’re not talking about the College of Cardinals, Bridget. Police are given their authority by the state.
 
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There’s a big difference between the weight and strength of a fit male police officer vs a slight woman.
Big men have sometimes died at the result of actions similar like this,so why would they think it was reasonable or safe to do this to a woman?
It’s no surprise that the US has a problem/divide with people protesting against police brutality and distrust of police if it’s a fact that so many other Americans would consider this a reasonable response to potential underage drinking and disrespectful behaviour/being smart.

In some instances,it’s true that an officer acts excessively because they were not trained enough to be able to clearly distinguish whether their life was in threat or not at that very moment and sometimes some situations can just be hard to judge.
But in a situation like this,where there is no weapon etc…what can be their excuse?
Perhaps she did kick one in the groin and it wasn’t seen on th video,but perhaps also they just didn’t like her attitude and they couldn’t control themselves/had poor control over their emotions?

It’s impossible to fix a cultural issue if people refuse to believe it exists.
 
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Respect is earnt,not demanded.
People should have respect in the institution of the police force,but it doesn’t mean they will have respect for anyone just due to them having a title of police officer.
If they act in a way that abuses their power,then it is unreasonable to expect respect.
Some people don’t have respect for police officers now without merit,but in other cases it is due to witnessing the actions of an aggressive policeman/one who didn’t check his own behaviour.
 
I think there have been more than a couple cases of police shooting unarmed people or engaging in brutality over the years. It used to be common practice among some cops to keep an unregistered firearm with them, so if they did shoot an unarmed guy, they could have a “drop gun” to leave at the scene.
 
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It used to be common practice among some cops to keep an unregistered firearm with them, so if they did shoot an unarmed guy, they could have a “drop gun” to leave at the scene.
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Are you sure about that? because it sounds like a conspiracy.
 
In all circumstances where people don’t have a voice,whether it is mistreatment of refugees or abuse of power by some police etc…
 
It is clear you are going to believe what you want, that historically abuse by police was rare. I am saying it wasn’t all that rare—but I am certainly not saying every cop was crooked or abused his/her position. I am just saying abuses happened all the time and rarely, until recently, were the offending police officers/units held accountable.

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What can we as Catholics do? No, we as citizens.
  1. Respect cops and don’t resist arrest. If you feel like a cop has acted inappropriately, you can file a complaint afterwards.
  2. Write to your local government leaders to invest more in body cameras.
  3. Give the profession the respect it deserves. Right now, in a lot of places like Chicago, they can’t afford to be picky about which applicants they accept into the force because the job is so unappealing even with the benefits. Constantly crapping on the profession is not going to make the situation better and can only make it worse if people feel like, if they do become a cop, their lives could one day be ruined because they were simply doing their jobs.
 
All God’s people deserve respect…I am a parent and if I want respect from my children I have to respect them. Do on to others as you would have them do onto you. Amen.
 
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