FBI Director Says Videos, Hashtags Are Worsening The Citizen-Police Divide
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-comey-black-lives-matter_562e4745e4b0443bb5648e44
FBI Director James Comey told a gathering of police
chiefs Monday that he believes officers are changing their
behavior because they fear being caught in viral videos, and
that the rise of crime in some cities may be a result of police
officers staying in their vehicles more often due to an
overabundance of caution. He described the law enforcement
community and the black community as diverging further and
further apart with each new controversy. "Each time somebody
interprets [the] hashtag 'BlackLivesMatter' as anti-law
enforcement, one line moves away, and each time that someone
interprets [the] hashtag 'PoliceLivesMatter' as anti-black, the
other line moves away," Comey said at a speech before the
International Association of Chiefs of Police. "I actually feel
the lines continuing to arch away, and maybe accelerating,
incident by incident, video by video, hashtag by hashtag, and
that's a terrible place to be."
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