I am absolutely gobsmacked at the thought of a Black man wanting to have his Black child held accountable for (possibly) stealing a pair of fucking gym shoes by an institution that would likely fail to hold one of their own officers accountable if they’d killed you or one of your children.

To a radical leftist nitwit, this might seem like a clear example of an obvious double standard that exposes the moral failure and therefore illegitimacy of the police force.

To anyone else, however, the difference between the two situations is obvious:

A police officer is employed by the state in a role that, at times, WILL necessitate the use of physical force. This is an inevitability as someone who enforces the law, no matter where in the world you are, and no matter what that law is.

Police officers must perform a task that the rest of the population is given the luxury (And it absolutely IS a luxury) of delegating to someone else. When they are found innocent of murder, manslaughter, etc, it does not mean that the police are untouchable in the courts and are allowed to go murdering. It means that they were found to have acted reasonably given the situation they were placed in by their job.