Saw some stats last night where police forces with unions had higher rates of misconduct. Interesting to me because I'm usually a "union guy" but I recognize the potential for unions to be used for extreme and/or negative purposes.All I hear is crickets. EVERYBODY can protest and complain but actually inacting a solution is much much tougher to do. Individual humans are going to do what they do like killing a man who should have been arrested but didn't deserve what he got. You can't condemn all cops based on what a few did any more than you should condemn all blacks for the looting. The system in Minnesota failed. That cop should have been off of the force long ago. Is it a police union problem? Is it because it's damned tough to hire law enforcement? Clearly given that guy's past record, he had NO business still being employed by the city. Klobuchar is complicit in this killing. She refused to charge him for past crimes when she could have.
Everyone understands that humans are flawed and some of them do bad things. It's where the cops who do these things (specifically commit murder) have not been punished appropriately for it that sparks the outrage.
Nobody expects for everyone to be treated the same. The justice system is supposed to punish crimes the way they deserve to be punished. There is a history of that not happening when cops beat or kill or falsely arrest somebody.
That can't be tolerated. A dude does that kind of stuff, he can't be a cop any more. Can't be "bad apples" with LEOs, the job is too important.