Indeed, individual actors should stand trial for breaking the law. It seems like some people are consciously or unconsciously using the police as a scapegoat,

Indeed, individual actors should stand trial for breaking the law. It seems like some people are consciously or unconsciously using the police as a scapegoat, though, as a means of avoiding genuinely addressing the root causes of police militarization and mass incarceration which are politically taboo to discuss: the war on drugs, and to a lesser extent, the war on terror.