My dad was a cop, so I reflexively take the defense on a lot of the famous "cop shoots dude with 7499 bullets" cases throughout the years - not that I actually agree with the cop in any of these instances, but I try to understand what makes shit like that happen from the perspective of knowing that cops are people, not machines.
Of course I can't say I'm really proud of how the cops acted in the Gates "break-in" case, I feel a simple "calm the fuck down old man, sorry" would've sufficed; but I'm REALLY not proud that someone has probably already mentioned to Gates hey, at least you're lucky you didn't get the cop who killed a guy for asking him to get off his stoop, and they'd be right. So.
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