All Lives Matter

Over the last many months, the Black Lives Matter movement has been making a whole bunch of press.  Not undeservedly so.  We've seen video, audio and photographs of young black men being

brutalized, beaten, and killed by white police officers.

PHILANDO CASTILLE

Yes, I'll agree that the cop here used excessive force.  There isn't any question about that.
I'm not trying to make an excuse for the police, or their actions, but in my experience, MANY (not all), police officers suffer from a God Complex.

God complex

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.

Description

A person with a god complex may refuse to admit the possibility of their error or failure, even in the face of irrefutable evidence, intractable problems or difficult or impossible tasks. The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they are unquestionably correct.^[1] Someone with a god complex may exhibit no regard for the conventions and demands of society, and may request special consideration or privileges.^[1]
God complex is not a clinical term or diagnosable disorder and does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
The first person to use the term god-complex was Ernest Jones (1913-51).^[2] His description, at least in the contents page of Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, describes the god complex as belief that one is a god.^[3]

 Alton Sterling

Again, I won't argue that the police in question here didn't use excessive force.  Sterling is dead, so obviously they used more force than was necesarry.

I'm not denying that some police and many civilians aren't racist.  That's an unfortunate fact.  However, I'm not one of them.
What I'm upset with though is, where is all the video, and protests about all the other non-black people that the police have shot and killed?

Breakdown Of US Citizens Killed By Cops In 2016

In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic from Statista shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group.

I'm not saying black lives don't matter.  The facts unfortunately show that black people kill many more other black people than the police do.
I'm not taking sides here.  I was raised to accept everyone, regardless of colour, creed, sexuality,
etc...  The colour of ones skin is the last thing I notice about a person.
If you treat me nice, I'll treat you nice.  It's as simple as that.




... Just sayin'.