Children of OWS Post Paper Hearts, Cops Rip Them Down

[tblue37]

8. It is foolish of the cops to train kids that young to believe that cops are the enemy. As

the kids reach adulthood, they will be the citizenry, and unlike their parents, they will not need a learning curve to mistrust and despise the police. They will bring that hostile attitude with them from childhood.

A police force needs cooperation from and a good working relationship with the community where they work. One reason cops get so little cooperation in minority neighborhoods is that they have always treated people in those parts of the cities as a subject population. Now they are treating everyone that way, so white middle class people who never understood the way cops harassed and brutalized minorities are now experiencing it themselves, and thus being turned against the police.

Today, even their kids were taught that the cops are not their friends, that they are not nice and not to be trusted--or cooperated with in the future.

Edited to add: The look on the face of the cop on the right is revealing: He is pissed at those people for daring to make use of their First Amendments rights, and he wants to tear into them! He is making a big show of destroying the hearts, and he is wearing his "angry" face while doing it, because he wants to intimidate.

One more edit: Betcha that "tearing down the hearts cop" will become another internet meme, like Lt. Pike and his pepper spray.