The liberal media has told them that cops are bad and that they're targets of shootings because of race, and therefore they think it's okay to disrespect law enforcement. Sadly, that's not the case at all:
https://fee.org/articles/our-resear...ls-who-is-the-likeliest-to-be-shot-by-police/
That's the small-minded, partisan 'political' interpretation of the title: Attach left-right labels and predict hostile responses from those you see as 'other', without considering the content. I'll offer some standard political-theory: law — and law enforcement **—**is a necessary, essential and inescapable part of any government. No one — left, centre or right — of adult years is stupid enough to think it is "okay to disrespect" that reality.
Everyone, saints and sinners alike, knows that there bad people determined to do bad things, who will only respond to force. And every government hires some version of that force, to police those people and keep them in line. When you see those police are a part of
your government, giving force and power to
your laws, which make
your community function safely and well, then of course you support them.
Clearly that is not how those people see those police. Not when their actions look more like oppressed and powerless people resisting an occupying army. A mindset that sees police that way will not be quickly changed by slogans or posters about, 'Our police deserve respect'. It will take many changes at many levels of society and government both. And it will be years, maybe generations before those small changes add up to, "those are
our police, doing what
we want done".
Meantime, the people in the uniforms struggle to get their work done (the nastiest part of any government's work). They have multitudes of opportunities to make mistakes that only make things worse, and no time to think through to those consequences. We do, sitting at our 'puters banging off posts. Rushing to be the first to label the 'other' guys with the name you hate doesn't help anyone to make things better. It only makes it easier to see an enemy you refuse to co-operate with, just like the one some people see when the cruisers pull up.
That's not politics, that's trying to be a better human being
