Social Justice Protests Are Deeply Flawed and Consequently Won't Work

 

So called social justice protests occurring across the nation based on an infinitely tiny fraction of perceived unjustified killings or injuries of a handful of Black people by police are understandably having the opposite effect of what is intended. The reasons are clear and simple:

1. Every single one of the incidents protested were caused by one or more of the following criminal acts by the perceived “victims” - disobeying police orders, resisting arrest, struggling or fighting with police, threatening police, shooting at police, and fleeing police. If you do any of those things instead of quietly cooperating with police and you are injured or killed by police, then that injury or death is on you, not the police. None of these people who were injured or killed by police would have been harmed if only they had peacefully cooperated with police. Therefore, many of us have zero empathy for those who got hurt or killed by police because they willfully did not cooperate peacefully with police. If you are innocent, you will get your day in court to prove it.

2. There are roughly 800,000 police in 18,000 police departments making roughly 13 million arrests per year, often in very dangerous situations. The very fact that only a handful of arrests result in questionable deaths speaks volumes of how extraordinary well police do their very stressful and dangerous jobs. Note that a cop is 25 times more likely to die in the line of duty than a Black person is likely to be killed by a cop. 25 times!!!!

3. In the rare cases where a police shooting or killing of a Black or any person results in the cop's arrest and charges of assault and/or murder are filed, then it is time to stop protesting that incident and let the justice system run its course which is a trial by a jury of his/her peers, not a trial by mob protest. You would want it no other way for yourself should you someday be charged with a crime. If you don't want to lose that right for yourself, then you must also preserve it for police.

4. Social justice protests have all been continuously violent for months with innocent people getting injured or killed by protesters, cars and buildings being vandalized or burned and destroyed, and often looting taking place. Many people who may have initially supported the social justice cause being promoted across the country have lost patience, live in fear of the violence either in their own neighborhood or potentially reaching their neighborhood some day, and understandably no longer support your cause.