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"Common sense" is only common to the people who know it already. There are plenty of people who think the vast majority of the police are public servants tryin
by wfo 10y ago
"Common sense" is only common to the people who know it already.
There are plenty of people who think the vast majority of the police are public servants trying to do their job, serve and protect. Maybe they're right. Some are. I've had good interactions with police officers and bad ones. The author was trying to do the right thing and maybe save someone's life. If a woman screams for help in a dark alley, it isn't common sense to run in and try to help her -- you're putting yourself in the line of fire. But it's brave and we celebrate and worship the people who do it rightfully as heroes, we don't berate them for "not having common sense" and putting themselves at risk.
What he did took courage or naive ignorance (or both) and from the rest of the article I'm fairly certain it's not ignorance -- he's well aware of rampant police brutality.
- powertower 10y agoHe witnessed white cops and a handcuffed black male who he claims was possibly muttering to himself. No one was beating anyone, no one was bleeding out. Common-sense is he interfered and made the situation worse.
- wfo 10y agoHe didn't interfere (he asked some questions as a certified medical professional) and he didn't make the situation worse. The officers made the situation worse, and he probably made things better for the guy in question -- would you want those particular violent abusive officers spending the next little while with their full attention on YOU? Ideally they'd be in jail, but if he distracted them for a while the guy's probably better off -- maybe the author took a beating the guy would have received.
- joesmo 10y agoIf you're in America, and you don't know this, you're either white or ignorant.