Whoa. Back the truck up. This isn't remotely true. Are there problem cops, even problem departments? Yes. But I know a lot a lot of cops. My best friend is a cop as is one of brothers, one if his sisters, his brother in law and his father in law. I've been at parties where almost everyone is a cop. These are very good people that have a very difficult even dangerous job where they will be criticized no matter what they do. But every force is not Ferguson, Selma or Baltimore.
My stepdad was a cop. And he was, and is, a good man.
That said, my desire to acknowledge nuance is lessened by the absolutism of the other side who have declared that
all actions by all cops are
always correct. No matter how egregious the killing they dig through the victims past trying to find some way they can frame them as a "thug" that deserved it. Ignoring that people are undeserving of immediate execution even if they can be proved to have once flashed an ambiguous hand sign that might be gang related once in a social media post from when they were 14.
So I find it interesting that you find fault with my hyperbole but not with how conservatives have decided all cops can never be wrong.
yep. and well before he entered the NFL when he was even more overhyped. so why didn't he do anything then if he really card that much.? he only became 'aware' when he got benched for being ******?
Do you even know what Kaepernick's career was about?
Okay, here it is.
2011 - Drafted out of college football obscurity. Sits on the bench that year behind established starter Alex Smith.
2012 - Comes off the bench and leads the team to a superbowl appearance and is one play away from winning.
2013 - Takes his team to the NFC championship game is one awesome Richard Sherman play away from going back to the superbowl.
2014 - Still the starter but the entire team gets injured and he has a not-terrible-but-not-great season. Team finishes 8-8 and ownership overreacts by firing the entire coaching staff.
2015 - Saddled with a coaching staff that were hired based on sort of just standing around looking "coachy" Kaepernick suffers several severe injuries and leaves to get surgery.
During the offseason SF explores trading their injured quarterback and starting a rebuild. Their trade partner, Denver, wants Kaepernick to start but wants him to take backup money. Kaepernick refuses the trade.
2016 - Still recovering from surgery he starts the season on the bench and also starts his protests. Halfway through the season he resumes being the starter and finishes with an excellent touchdown to interception ratio.
During the offeseason SF asks Kaepernick if he wants to opt out of his contract, he accepts and explores free agency. By now he is blacklisted and no one will sign him even to be a backup.
In summation he served as the starter for at least part of every season except his rookie one. He was the starter the vast majority of his career and only briefly lost his job to injury before regaining it. Then he decided that racist murders are bad and everyone lost their marbles.
It's a bit surprising to see Nike and the NFL join Kaepernick and the drug gangs against the American Flag, fallen heroes and Vets, law enforcement, and the safety of our citizens. I'll only be watching the Cowboys this year, and I've been a big NFL fan for a long time. That way I can root against whatever team of kneelers they are playing.
What? Where did they ever ally themselves with drug gangs? You might as well say they are also allies of ISIS.
"Nike, I love your gear, but you exhaust my spirit on this one. Your new ad with Colin Kapernick, I get the message, but that sacrificing everything thing…. It just doesn’t play out here. Sacrificing what exactly? A career?
"Taking a stand, or rather a knee, against the flag which has covered the caskets of so many who actually did sacrifice everything for something they believe in, that we all believe in? Well, the irony of your ad..it almost leaves me speechless. Were you trying to be insulting?
"Maybe you are banking on the fact we won’t take the time to see your lack of judgement in using words that just don’t fit. Maybe you are also banking on us not seeing Nike as kneeling before the flag. Or maybe you want us to see you exactly that way. I don’t know. All I know is, I was actually in the market for some new kicks and at least for now, I’ve never been more grateful for Under Armour."
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Taya Renae Kyle, the widow of US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Sept 4, 2018)
I see. The flag represents her dead husband but not the dead black men cops keep gunning down. How odd that she makes it all about her dead husband but not about the people that the protests are actually about.
