I watch bodycam videos on YouTube. A ton of them come from red states; they’re rural. I see the resistance to cops in red states as sort of “muh rights” but it occurs to me that Leftists (like me) may also stand up to bullshit (just not the same bullshit).
I know that I think cops are corrupt, but I also won’t fight someone with a gun. What are your thoughts on how this divide might play out?
I will have to go out on a limb and say I wonder if the answer might be blue states based on my experience with New York. Bucky, case in point. There was a prisoner in 2006 named Bucky who escaped from prison, unaware he had only a few days left of it (that’s been a meme in this whole thing). He escaped by modifying kitchen equipment while on kitchen duty and cutting a hole in a vulnerable area of the interior. When he escaped, the state troopers were sent out to find him, and they proved to be completely ineffective because they just ran around and around aimlessly trying to interpret weak clues. Rather than, you know, trying to imbue some effectiveness in them, half-way through the search, they got aggressive when looking for leads and ended up killing persons of interests in their impatience because they too were getting aggressive, as well as ruining the peace with how many vehicles they were roaming by neighborhoods a day and spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on the manhunt. Eventually they felt the sting of it all and made the personal move of hunting down and threatening Bucky’s whole family with death, hoping that news would reach him and he would surrender, which he did. He currently sits in maximum security as we speak.
Never have I seen that insanity topped.