{"id":16157,"date":"2018-04-07T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2018-04-07T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:04:11","slug":"if-patrolling-us-soldiers-can-avoid-shooting-civilians-why-cant-us-cops-stop-murdering-unarmed-black-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/if-patrolling-us-soldiers-can-avoid-shooting-civilians-why-cant-us-cops-stop-murdering-unarmed-black-men\/","title":{"rendered":"If patrolling US soldiers can avoid shooting civilians, why can’t US cops stop murdering unarmed black men?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seriously. The rules of engagement for police in American cities should NOT be less strict than for the military on the streets of Kabul. Soldiers in Afghanistan can’t shoot you because they THINK they MIGHT see a gun. You have to SHOOT at them first. This is a democracy, where ALL are created equal, and this racially motivated abuse of police power must end.<\/p>\n

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Seriously. The rules of engagement for police in American cities should NOT be less strict than for the military on the streets of Kabul. Soldiers in Afghanistan can’t shoot you because they THINK they MIGHT see a gun. You have to SHOOT at them first. This is a democracy, where ALL are created equal, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17187,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/police-officer-buys-presents-for-family-whose-car-broke-down-on-christmas-eve\/","url_meta":{"origin":16157,"position":0},"title":"Police officer buys presents for family whose car broke down on Christmas Eve","date":"December 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes we forget. Maybe because a few bad apples give cops a bad name. Maybe because the bad ones are the ones that usually make the news. But not all cops are busy shooting unarmed black people...there are plenty of good cops who are truly awesome human beings, who serve\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "#blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16459,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/south-carolina-police-object-to-high-school-reading-list-for-creating-distrust-of-police\/","url_meta":{"origin":16157,"position":1},"title":"South Carolina police object to high school reading list for creating \u2018distrust of police\u2019","date":"July 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The books are the problem? Really? That's what you're going with? Sorry, but I'm pretty sure it's all the shootings of unarmed people of color that is REALLY creating distrust. The differential treatment, different justice, based upon race is what creates the real divisions. 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