Observation: Your profile says: You call it "alt-left", I proudly call it "Antifa".

Attack the argument, not the person making it.

Where was the attack? Does mschuster91 consider being associated with antifa (that's how I interpret it) an "attack"?

How is it relevant?

How is it not relevant?

It should not matter if one is on the right, center or left end of the spectrum to recognize that police should be an instutition that is accepted by all members of society - and that in most Western countries, public distrust in police is only growing over the last years due to (severe) misconduct, incompetence, selective enforcement and a lot of other problems.

Of course, as someone associating with the far left side of politics and being politically active in general, I may be a bit more opinionated than many other people - but that fact alone is sad, given how important governmental institutions are for our daily lives.

Beyond that - did you disagree with me showing that part of your profile? Did you feel like your privacy was being violated, or something like that?

Picking details from their profile is an attempt to discredit them without addressing their message. It’s a distraction at best, deceitful at worst.

They could be the stupidest idiot and still be right occasionally, and vice versa. So if you have issues with the point they are making, engage with the point instead of looking for dog whistles.

Also, seriously, you have to be in the US for antifa to be considered a bad thing somehow. I thought we decided back in the 1940s that we were all anti-fascists.

>Of course it is offensive. But so are all the "cops" who follow the Korpsgeist and keep their mouths shut when they see their colleagues openly break the law.

I'm going to go out on a whim and say you wouldn't be comfortable saying that all black people are bastards because they don't stand out against their peers.

What about this cop who rescues a 9 year old kidnapped child?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jzHi6Xs0Qc

If they looked the other way while fellow cops violated peoples’ rights then they’re still a piece of shit, even if they also did their job and saved a kidnapped kid.