It even kind of angers me to see people bashing the police on the internet so I often defend them.

They put their lifes on the line, so even when videos of bad police crop up you kinda gotta feel for them. It must be so stressful to do the things they are asked to do on a daily basis.  When they put on that uniform the have to set aside their humanity to do their job, how can you not sympathize with such people.  They care about us so hard that they feel have to do this stuff and risk their health just to keep us safe.  How can you not feel for those people – our protectors.

And another thing – we only ever see the videos where police hurt or kill people. Rarely do we get to see the videos where they show leniency or kindness.  People don’t realize that these unseen videos are the most important because they show the police giving a person a second chance. They are practically giving them back however many years of their lifes that their crime would have landed them in jail for.

I was once wrongfully arrested by the police and though they held me for days they were so kind to me.  One of the guards gave me several pieces of chewing gum during my stay right out his own pocket and would let me read his newspaper when he was done with it.  They are really just people like us.