Ding! Ding! Ding! You want the large teddy bear on the top shelf, or the jack-knife?
100% I agree. It sucks to be a cop under normal circumstances. Now it’s magnified by a factor of a million. It’s not unnoticed, certainly by me. That at the end of the day, human beings matter, their lives, their well being and their feelings do matter. And cops are as human as anyone else and the cruelty and nastiness, not to even get into the utter violence and murder being directed at them (you).
But there is still a problem. For instance, see the attached picture.
So the story is this bar owner, defied the unconstitutional lock down edict. There is a wall of cops blocking the entrance to his business and people came out to protest. So his business is open, there is a wall of police blocking then entrance and they are being protested… by the same people who marched for them during the Blue Lives Matter counter protests. Literally, a block a way, the restaurants are open because they are outside this imaginary line that the mayor\ governor drew. The people the police are blocking are the people who supported them, not ANTIFA or BLM who want to defund them. And the edict, is obviously unconstitutional, but just hasn’t been challenged in a court of law. So you have a legal contradiction. The written law says one thing and the governor’s edict says another. Now the police are choosing to enforce the governor’s edict and not the written law.
What I am asking is as a cop, can you refuse to do stuff like this? I assume you take an oath to uphold the law, but what happens when there is a contradiction in the law and it’s left up to the powers-that-be to decide their personal pet projects. Can’t you say something like ‘I took an oath to the law, not power hungry politicians, I am not enforcing that bullshit.’ Or do you just follow orders and that’s it, no say so.
I am betting many of the cops in these pictures don’t want to be there, but their they are. Similarly, these were the same guys ‘standing down’ while stores are getting looted and destroyed.
You see how this doesn’t look good?
I get it, it’s bad enough to be a cop right now. But this looks bad, really bad. There are unspeakable crimes going on all over NY at that minute, but the cops are there to close a restaurant that just want’s to make a buck, instead.
I know it’s bad enough as it is, but where is the line for a cop? When do they finally say ‘We aren’t doing this’?
EDIT: To be specific, I am asking for your perspective, your opinion on the matter.