The police are used to not being held to account. This is policing in the Trump era.

In NYC police SUVs drive into protesters The first thing I saw was support from the action by de Blasio. Not sure if he saw the video or was told that is what happened, but he comes across as Rahm Emmanuel.

The problem is that good cops cover for the bad apples. For many people, there are no good cops. Driving an NYPD SUV into a crowd sends a message that the NYPD does not care about your body. It is not a good image. In Minneapolis, a CNN host shows us that local law enforcement fired rubber bullets into a peaceful crowd. Police are further destroying their credibility. The police unions are shouting that they do not care about black lives.

The protests are not just about Floyd, it is about deaths during the pandemic, housing discrimination, poverty, schools that are falling apart, etc. I think there was a James Dean movie that had a line asking why Dean's character was angry, the response was, "What you got?". That is where we are now. Institutions have lost credibility.