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How would you process the fact that a new friend of yours is a cop? (USA) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I genuinely believe ACAB,

Yeahhhh... No. That's not true. Being a police officer doesn't make someone a bad person. Good cops exist.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

The reason ACAB is because a good cop exists in a superposition between resigned and ~~murdered~~ tragically killed in the line of duty, and the act of reporting a bad cop collapses the waveform.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I was of this conviction until Amsterdam riot cops hunted down protestors like animals and beat them relentlessly, without reason, after they were released from custody, and not a single other cop denounced it.

(Here's a short compilation of videos taken while it happened, a journalistic video piece and a news article)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Good cops should prevent bad cops from existing.

There are no good cops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You forgot to add "...for a very short time per individual" at the end