What is With All the Hatred Toward Police?



Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo
The two officers who were sadly killed in Las Vegas.

According to USAtoday, two police officers were killed in a CiCi's Pizza while they were having lunch by a man and a woman. However, before eventually being sadly killed, one of the officers had managed to fight back and return fire. Unfortunately, the officer did not manage to neutralize the threat and the two had managed to make their way to a Wal-Mart that was across the street from the CiCi's Pizza and killed another individual. It is unknown just what the motivation behind the attack was, but one of the suspects yelled, "This is a revolution," and articles of white supremacy paraphernalia had been found in the couple's possession during the investigation. This shooting had taken place in 2013, and, unfortunately, it has not been the only one, especially in recent days. Very recently, around the time of January 9, 2015, a police officer had been shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He had been shot on a busy intersection. Unfortunately, his condition was not released to the public. This event had taken place less than one whole week after another officer had been shot, but not killed, for what appeared to be a routine drunk driver. Perhaps these attacks have been in response to the recent "race shootings" by white officers against black civilians. Of course, I personally do not agree with almost every person in cities, as the all seem to believe that all police officers are racist and corrupt, which is just not true. However, due to the main media sources of America fueling the idea of race violence by police, many people seem to believe more and more that the "chokehold" of Eric Garner (Which was not a chokehold, by the way) and other shootings of "unarmed" black men by white officers are racist. Although, if people could set aside the concept of racism for a few minutes, they would see that all the "violence" and "brutality" are actually people performing their jobs properly when someone is attempting to jeopardize his or her life. I personally believe that all the hatred and disgust toward police is misplaced and unfounded in any logic or truth.