Australian woman fatally shot by Minneapolis police officer

The World Socialist Web Site is spot on about police violence not being essentially racial. I don't need to be lectured about cops being all too human.

 My grandfather was a cop in the South Providence area during the Great Depression years. His politics : " You'll never get a bone from those Republicans ". A " progressive " cop, my grandfather ?

I browsed a book written by the now divorced wife of a police officer. She made the point that cops in general do become estranged from the very public that they are called upon to " protect ". And she noted that their close friends tend to be mostly other cops.

At their best some cops have a commendable sense of good and evil. And it shows up when they write detective fiction and crime stories.

That won't stop them from getting tough with " Bolsheviks ".

My grandfather " Red Engley "