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When Good People Do Nothing, Tyranny Reigns (3:30) Dontie Mitchell

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When good people do nothing, tyranny reigns. Let us analyze why people are looting and rioting in the wake of George Floyd's death. It's because people lose respect for law when the very people responsible for enforcing the law break the law and keep getting away with it. Police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, judicial bias, institutional racism, mass incarceration are all examples of the abusive authority that angers and frustrates people. How many times have police officers killed unarmed citizens and either have gotten away with it or have gotten slapped on the wrist? When people witnessed this over and over and over again, they start to ask, "Why should I respect the law when the police don't?"But let us ask even deeper questions: where all the so called good cops? If most cops are good cops, then how can so many bad cops not get exposed until they murder someone in cold blood on video cameras? If the institution of law enforcement wasn't corrupt, then bad cops would get rooted out quick. It would be