I'm a pasty-ass almost translucent old white guy and I still tense up and go full "on guard" mode around cops. When I was growing up, there were not a lot of black guys to beat the crap out of, so the dirty cops trolled through the Irish-Catholic areas looking for kids up to no good. When Rodney King happened a bunch of my friends and I all had the same thought: That looks like someone I know. We all had stories of people we knew arrested for nonsense, "contempt of cop" and "resisting arrest." Growing up I just did not have the life experience to realize that this happens everywhere that there are people with no money; shit like this don't happen in the gated communities.

Some cops have always been good people and some cops have always been shit. The difference now is that everyone has a recording device on them and a lot of sheltered people are starting to realize they cannot ignore the smell of garbage. I just hope that the desire to clean this up pops up and gets traction before another set of riots.