'Culture of police hatred': overheated talk or real concern?
I’m angry that the fringe groups who started the culture of police hatred have widened the racial divide in our country by alleging that officer involved shootings stem from racism.
Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway set off a storm last week when he unleashed an 800-word salvo that may have expressed what a lot of police officers are feeling but not saying publicly.
Their frustrations are rooted in incidents as serious as the assassination of a deputy in Texas and in social slights and taunts: a police sergeant refused service at an Arby's in Florida, a neighborhood flier in Atlanta promising free hotdogs and hamburgers but specifying "no cops," with a drawing of hotdogs roasting over a burning Atlanta police car.
Is there a culture of police hatred, as Conway and others suggest, or is this heated rhetoric just deepening the divide between police and the public? See how people are responding at MyAJC.com.
