Pray? How bout a thumbs up? Yea I'll give the police a thumbs up. At least the ones from my town anyway. In my town it's nothing but black on black. Black on blue and blue on black is rare here. We have a pretty racially diverse town which is why everyone from my city watches the news in disbelief at how -blam!-ing dumb people are and especially those BLM morons lol. Even the black people in my town think most of BLM are ignorant ass -blam!-s with nothing better to do than to bitch and compare their situation to their ancestors. And as far as police go, I have tons of friends that are on the force that have been put in tons of situations like the ones you see on the news and they always find a way out of it without discharging deadly force. My buddy said it best, 99% of police officers are awesome, the one percent that end up on the news for brutality are the ones that got bullied in high school. And that's pretty true because during my time in the military, it was the ones who were bullied or made fun of or had little man syndrome that were always quick to blow their lid and shoot first or swing first. Granted, combat and police officers have different rules and situations but it's almost pretty much the same. You can't jus shoot an afghan because he looked at you funny or didn't move when you said move, or shoot him because you think he has a grenade when he actually has an apple, well not anymore anyway. Jus like in combat, sometimes police officers jus simply get it wrong and that's something the world can live with...an anccident or hell even a lapse in judgment is sometimes forgiven. But negligence is never forgiven and that's something that must be fixed on the communities part and on the officers part as well. But anyways jus thought I'd throw some two cents in there and to reiterate that not all cops are bad. Before I leave I'll give you an example. I had a lapse in judgement one night and decided to drive home after I had had some alcoholic beverages. I made it about 20 feet from my house and another driver hit me. Didn't mess up her car and barely scuffed mine so all was good. When the officer arrived he assessed the damage and gathered our info and proceeded to hand us both tickets. I failed to yield and idk what she did but she got a ticket as well. He told her she could leave and asked me to stay put. In my head I'm thinking " -blam!- me in the ass I'm about to go to jail because he smelled alcohol on my breath and I'm royally -blam!-ed!!!" He comes back to my car and says " son I'm gonna give you one chance and one chance only, if you tell me the truth, I'll let you go since you're not to far from home, if you lie to me, I'll take your ass to jail" My reply was " I had 4 beers and a shot of tequila and im sorry and it won't happen again" He smiled and said "have a good night" I left my care right there on the side of the road and walked the 20 feet to my house. This happened 4 years ago and it was the first time I had ever driven under the influence and haven't done it since then. I see this officer occasionally out in public and he always comes up to me and asks how I'm doing and if I'm behaving. Real nice guy, really cool person to talk to and even to this day I consider myself in his debt because he could have -blam!-ed my life up if he really wanted to instead he gave me a pass so that I could learn from my mistake and I did. I'm grateful he did that for me because had he not done that, I'd be under the impression that I could always get away with it and it would have only been a matter of time before I went to jail for real for being a dumbass. I challenge all of you to find a police officer and tell them thank you. Armed forces are not the only ones that deserve a thank you. Military deploy and are out in the line of fire once every six months for 9 to 12 months depending on the deployment rotation set by your unit. Police officers put their lives on the line every day. Yea some suck but the majority are jus like you and me. I think at least a thank you is in order given the fatality rate for officers these days even if you don't like them, they are doing something most people are afraid to do or not willing to do in the first place.