Dear Officer, Just Because Someone Has a Badge Doesn’t Make Them Any Different [Medium.com]

A Bay Area teen and a long-time cop have an open conversation about police brutality

Hello Carl,

Thanks for kudos on graduating from high school! It was definitely the most exciting thing that’s happened in my life thus far.

Do you know why the police commission rejected the SFPD’s request for tasers? I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t want to make this a priority. If not this, then what are their priorities?

And thank you for giving me a better understanding of how the police system works. It sucks when a police officer loses his life. They are just as human as the regular civilians who don’t carry a badge. But not everyone sees it like that because of how crazy and messed up these past couple of years have been… so many videos of police brutality have been brought to our attention. The cops I’ve interacted with don’t uphold the “protect and serve” motto that they preach to the public. Now, my friends and I feel unsafe around cops; we don’t trust ‘em.

[For more of this story go to https://medium.com/matter/dear...fferent-1586b33ab2df]