A recent post from a popular YouTube channel has provided more evidence of that which is blatantly obvious in modern America, at least to those who are willing to face the truth: the fact that cops, as with the governments they serve, are the enemy to goodness, justice, and American liberty.
This latest post is from The Civil Rights Lawyer, a channel (by a practicing civil rights lawyer) documenting police misconduct and civil rights violations since the year 2020. This time, it is a case of an elderly man, a former pastor suffering from dementia, murdered at the hands of “the very people who were supposed to protect and care for him”:
“Officers were dispatched to a business to assist an elderly customer who appeared to be suffering from dementia. At the scene, officers found him extremely confused. He told them the year was 1948 and that the president was George Washington. So they call his daughter to come pick him up. So how did things go so terribly wrong that day, that this 74 year old man ended up dying alone in a jail cell 9 hours later, confined in a restraint chair with a hood over his head? The story of Lester Isbill is one that could happen to anyone. He wasn’t a criminal. He was a good man. He had committed no crime. Yet he would nevertheless fall victim to this terrible death at the hands of the very people who were supposed to protect and care for him.”
Whether it be the “public servants” who tortured and murdered Lester Isbill, and who laughed and scoffed at him as he was dying; whether it be other such cases as those involving the likes of Tony Timpa and Kelly Thomas; whether it be the inordinately high rates of domestic violence brought by police officers on their own families; or whether it be the generally hostile demeanor of police officers toward members of the public — the point of the matter is that police officers in America view themselves as members of the same team, and they view the public collectively as the enemy, and this often even extends to their treatment of their own spouses and children. Naturally, this makes police officers in America a singular threat to our lives, our safety, and our God-given rights, as individuals and as Americans.
My book Fischer: Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse captures much of the essence of what makes cops the enemy to civil society and American liberty. It is essential reading.
As for the “good cops” (which the apologists insist exist), they’re scarcely ever found doing anything about these kinds of injustices; on the contrary, most cops cover for their buddies or turn a blind eye to the obvious. That’s because the “good cops” are few and far between — among the very few “good ones” who manage to stumble into a career in law enforcement, they eventually promote out of patrol duty or (more commonly) they seek alternative employment after realizing the horrible company they have to keep in that profession. In other cases, the “good cops” are rooted out as soon as “the thin blue line” finds out that they’re not the kind of “team player” they’re looking for: the kind who lies, cheats, covers, and conceals for the benefit of “the team”.
The truth of the matter is that good people don’t want to associate with evil and corrupt sociopaths (or people wielding power without principle), and it is a known quantity that these are precisely the types of people hired on and promoted within police departments. Good people recognize this and leave, or they are reformed or pushed out, meaning that only the bad guys (or, put more delicately, the guys without principles) are left ruling the roost. And, more than occasionally, police officers even recognize the failures in leadership and the extent of the corruption, but they make a habit of tolerating it in the interest of job security, to stay on path to the holy grail of public service: the public pension.
Even consider police officers (or retirees) who fancy themselves “Christian” — these types scarcely ever do anything to condemn or address even the most blatant and heinous of injustices. On the contrary, their instinct is to always support the “men in blue” or to otherwise equivocate and insist that “there’s more to the story” (a common refrain among cops). However, even after the full story (or enough of it) has been released, they scarcely, if ever, speak out against the injustices; they rarely, if ever, protest or contact the departments; they seldom do or say anything, precisely because, for them, it’s not a matter of justice or public service, and truthfully, in most cases, they just don’t care.
In fact, in many cases, the “there’s more to the story” line serves to pause discussion until a later date — a time when people (they hope) will have forgotten all about the subject and moved on. The truth is that “justice” and “public service” are just buzzwords concealing the fact that they’re interested in what gains are to be had in or after their careers. The rest is a matter of status and power — and that is precisely why some cops even have the audacity to claim that they’re “Christian”.
They stake this claim, occasionally, because they fear Judgment Day or, more commonly, because they are seeking leverage or power through the Divine. The proof is in the putting: they scarcely ever do anything with their “divine inspiration” to correct the wrongs committed or to address the ongoing injustices.
They’re frauds, just like the lion’s share of Christians and other religious followers. In the case of cops, in particular, they destroy people’s lives, families and liberties, then they become Christians (or claim to be) in the interest of appearances, or because of a guilty conscience, because they want to save face and sport a disguise, or because they desperately seek leverage and power in their own lives — whether that be over their own thoughts or in their judgment of others.
All of this is to say that the phrase “Christian cop” is an oxymoron — a contradiction in terms in the American police state. For the simple fact of the matter is this: a “Christian cop” can’t remain both for long.
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