Glenn Bartley said:
Since when has this become an 'Us Against Them' thing, when them is just law enforcement.
In the public eye, law enforcement (in general) needs to be put "in check". It happens occasionally, and this, too, will eventually die down. In the past couple of decades, law enforcement has suffered some pretty severe "black eyes". The days of "Officer Joe, the friendly neighborhood beat cop" are long gone, but how well law enforcement ranks in the general public's eye is often on a rollercoaster ride.
People tend to lose trust in law enforcement when there is a group of officers/agents making mistakes. Furthermore, it angers to general public to no end when LEOs aren't "burned at the stake" when they make a mistake.
How much prison time did any of the officers receive when they beat the snot out of Rodney King? What happened to Lon Horiuchi when he killed unarmed Vicki Weaver with an infant in her arms? What happened to Janet Reno over the Branch Davidian fiasco in Mt Carmel, TX? What happened to those New Orleans officers who illegally confiscated Katrina victims' weapons?
You know, and I know, that police officers are human. To the public, police officers are a badge, and thus, should be held to a higher standard. Magnify that with the media drooling over any mishap, and cops are going to be continuously portrayed--in the public eye--as corrupt, abusive, power-hungry thugs. With the recent incidents involving law enforcement combined with the constant negative spin the media unduly gives each of those incidents, you may want to consider it seems to the public (like the people who post here) that it's law enforcement with the "us against them" attitude.
Any law enforcement officer (who is honest with themselves) will admit they have a different view and attitude towards other law enforcement officers than with civilians.
All that said, "they" aren't "JUST law enforcement". "They" have recently suffered some pretty rough black eyes in the public's view, and it's going to take some time to heal.