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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
Why were they at this little girls funeral to begin with? A police officer was murdered and they weren't there. I guess I just don't understand how they pick and choose which people they support. I would think they would support a police officer who was shot during a shoot out with a drug dealer than a little girl who was (accidentally?) shot while her grandma struggled with an officer because they were coming after their family member who had senselessly (is that a word?) murdered a teenage boy. That's my point.
And by "their own" I meant their own family members. They have no one to blame but their family member hiding there after murdering someone.
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Because they focus on people they see as victims of oppression, I suspect. A police officer signs up for a dangerous job. His or her death is tragic but part of the every day risks of a job. An innocent killed by the police is a victim. If the police were out of line, then she's a victim of their misbehavior and this relates to the narrative of authority oppressing the innocent. (Hence why Jesse Jackson showed up in my hometown when some kids got expelled for getting into a fight at a football game. He framed it as an unfair, oppressive action. He also doesn't pay his hotel bills.)
My understanding is that they were separate units and that the little girl was not in the same unit as the suspect. Is that not true?
If the police officers were out of line, overzealous, not careful, etc. Then they do share some of the blame. As well, the family might not have had anywhere else to go or felt too threatened to call the police themselves on said suspect.