Prayer Warrior
Well-Known Member
I agree with most of what you are saying. That experience stuck with me because I’m a law-abiding citizen who had just been through a really tough experience. Otherwise, I possibly could have shrugged it off.I'm sorry that it happened to you. Let me tell you some stories I know of. The other day an officer have a woman a warning because she was destracted because she had just had a break up with her boyfriend. An officer gave a black man a warning because he was jobless and living with a friend. He was on his way to a job interview. A cop gave a woman a warning because she was distracted because she just found out she was pregnant. I could go on an on with these stories. THESE are the people who serve us. And they are the VAST majority of the people who wear the badge. The one you had an issue with cop be a cop that shouldn't be one. But he also equally could have had a bad moment due to any number of circumstances in his life. Maybe he just got served divorce papers, or found out someone had cancer or just was in a fight with someone.
Cut him a break until you know more. Just like you would want one. He shouldn't have yelled at you and taken things out in you. It was wrong.
But it also doesn't make him a BAD COP.
It also doesn't make 20% of cops bad cops.
I was a public school teacher, and I worked hard to be a good teacher, but God knows I had my days where I failed miserably for one reason or another. We all have those days, and I would not want them to define me as a teacher, so I understand what you’re saying, and I certainly don’t see all officers as bad based on that one experience.