On Sunday night, a group of "Aggressive protesters" reportedly targeted the home of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best.
Best sent a letter to the city council, urging them to "Stand up for what is right" and end "The new way of doing business by mob rule." She condemned them for their silence and not "Speaking against" the lawless rioters.
The police chief reported that her heroic neighbors succeded in preventing violence.
Americans can agree with Best that many cases of police brutality should spur local reform according to the democratic process without agreeing with the radical claims of Marxist groups like Black Lives Matter, which insist that most aspects of American society trace back to "White supremacy."
In horrific cases like that of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in the confusion of a plainclothes no-knock raid, there are clear local reforms that citizens should advocate, such as bans on the practice of police in plain clothes busting into people's houses without knocking.
In the equally infuriating case of Ahmaud Arbery, a former police officer and his son shot a black man in cold blood and the police department looked the other way, even after the former cop confessed to the heinous crime.
Many protesters have engaged in wanton destruction, twisting the cause away from specific cases and specific reforms and instead claiming that these isolated incidents prove a menace of "White supremacy" and "Structural racism" behind the institution of police as a whole or America as a society.
Best sent a letter to the city council, urging them to "Stand up for what is right" and end "The new way of doing business by mob rule." She condemned them for their silence and not "Speaking against" the lawless rioters.
The police chief reported that her heroic neighbors succeded in preventing violence.
Americans can agree with Best that many cases of police brutality should spur local reform according to the democratic process without agreeing with the radical claims of Marxist groups like Black Lives Matter, which insist that most aspects of American society trace back to "White supremacy."
In horrific cases like that of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in the confusion of a plainclothes no-knock raid, there are clear local reforms that citizens should advocate, such as bans on the practice of police in plain clothes busting into people's houses without knocking.
In the equally infuriating case of Ahmaud Arbery, a former police officer and his son shot a black man in cold blood and the police department looked the other way, even after the former cop confessed to the heinous crime.
Many protesters have engaged in wanton destruction, twisting the cause away from specific cases and specific reforms and instead claiming that these isolated incidents prove a menace of "White supremacy" and "Structural racism" behind the institution of police as a whole or America as a society.
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