One of my new friends is/was a cop. Just found out about it. I genuinely believe ACAB, and this news has me conflicted because my new friend seems really cool and super nice. I don’t know him super well yet, though. He’s a big part of this new friend group and I don’t know how to process this and how to deal with the fact he’s a cop.

I don’t want to look past the fact he’s a cop, but I want to stay his friend and stay in this friend group.

Any advice for dealing with this shit?

I can’t talk to my therapist about it until Thursday.

  • stinky@redlemmy.com
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    12 days ago

    Hard disagree.

    It is the people. Bad people choose to become USA police because they can be violent racist pieces of garbage with no consequences. They are immune to justice. Good people do not do this.

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      12 days ago

      Yep Good cops don’t stay cops.

      They end up leaving a corrupt system, joining the corrupt system or leaving in a body bag.

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        11 days ago

        there are probably some good departments. then this wouldn’t apply, but I have no experience know how many are good.

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        12 days ago

        Leaving in a body bag? I assume you mean because a bad cop killed them. It’s surely not from the nature of the job itself; being a pizza delivery person is statistically more dangerous.