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Our Challenge To NFL Players Protesting

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CREDENTIALS FOR THE DISCUSSION

I will counteract the obvious next salvo stating that as a white man, I have no idea what black people endure by stating that the same goes for anyone being a Monday Morning quarterback when viewing a partial cell phone video of police interaction with the public. 

I am proudly retired from the New York City Police Department and served as a police officer, detective and sergeant.  During my career, I worked many years as an undercover in narcotics and had plenty of interactions with uniformed personnel who had no idea I was one of their own. Needless to say, I was not treated kindly because I was a white boy. I was a piece of shit in their eyes and rightly so. Hanging around a sketchy part of town either looking for or already having purchased drugs will result in being thrown up against a wall and searched more times than not.

And while I may live in the suburbs currently, I grew up and lived in Brooklyn for the first 27 years of my life and was taught in the New York City public school system that was diverse racially.

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So I’d like to think that I have a broad scope of things that come into play with these protests with all of the above factors considered. The black people making the argument state to put ourselves (white people) in their shoes; I am saying to put yourself in the police officer’s shoes so we can look at this objectively.

CASE-BY-CASE BASIS

We’ll use the Randy Moss Hall of Fame induction tie as a barometer for a list of names that are brought up often in the protest discussion.

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