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Baked Potato

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10. I think police are feeling increasingly rejected by their own communities,
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 02:24 PM
Mar 2021

causing them to seek help from bad actors. White supremacists apparently are more than happy to fill the vacuum created by this public abandonment and lack of assistance.

The “Our enemy and your enemy unites us” thinking is for the most part self-preservation on the parts of the police.

There are bad actors coming from many sources now hoping to become accepted by police as comrades. It’s up to the law enforcement chiefs to draw the line and be more discriminate with whom they “affiliate” with.

Eventually, as the Capitol Police quickly learned, these so-called comrades will go bad and become well armed adversaries.

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