The problem you're running into is that you haven't said anything that proponents of fiction wouldn't say. It's not a nice game. Any serious move you make can

The problem you're running into is that you haven't said anything that proponents of fiction wouldn't say. It's not a nice game. Any serious move you make can be pigeonholed into pro-police or anti-police, irrespective of whether you're motivated by truth, fiction, a pro-police position, or an anti-police position. And so long as there are enough people who play the pigeonhole game loudly enough, whether on mainstream or social media, it's the default game. You can't start by assuming the person you're talking to is playing a truth game, because then you'll waste all your time on trolls. Right now, pro-police people will think you're covertly supporting their side. Anti-police people will think you're covertly opposing theirs. And truth people won't be able to tell which game you're playing. Even if you're lucky and you start talking to a truth person, as soon as you or they, having to be alert for trolls, misunderstands or misinterprets something, the belief that both of you are in good faith will shatter, and a difference that otherwise might have been resolved instead convinces both of you that everything the other one said is something trolls say. There, I think that's enough defeatism out of my system for a few days.