Black Lives Matter and Police Brutality.
Charlottesville Virginia.
Dallas.
Baton Rouge.
Baltimore.
Houston.

All are epidemics involving lives taken too violently and abruptly.

There is a difference between Black Lives Matter and Anti Police Officer.

The recent stories about police officers that the media hand out are spreading like wildfires across this country. They generalize from the few arrogant officers who think they can take on the world. They make the cops look like the bad guys in almost every film, story and headline because it's easier to blame those who have authority than those who don't. I'm not saying race related crimes don't happen. But it's easier to say that there is a problem with a police unit, than admit there's a problem in the town, state or country- and God forbid there be anything other than perfect from the American people.

So what about those cops who aren't so bad?

Children are being raised in a society where they fear those who are there to protect them. Where the white, male, officer is there to hurt them rather than help them. There are terrible people in this world who commit horrible acts. But, is the lesson we should be taking from this that white police officers are after the entire African American race?

When you base a society that creates transgressions on a label, you are cultivating one of the same environments that led to civil war, WWII, genocide.

Regarding what some people believe, police lives matter. I was blessed with a kick ass dad, who also is a kick ass cop. His life matters, my uncle's life matters, my friends' parents' lives matter, my friends' who put their lives out on the line daily matter just as much as the person sitting across from you reading this article matters.

I have waken up everyday for as long as I can remember, not knowing if my dad would come home that night. I go throughout my day with this thought, that he might not make it home. I hear people make comments about how bad cops are, and how they don't know why the government keeps them around because "all they do is hurt". I see friends on social media slander police time and time again because they are 'killers'. The media continues to show little bits and pieces of video taped riots all over the country; people shouting to the cops that they wish they were dead.

So who protects them? You see uprisings for those civilians that have lost their lives to police officers but where are the uprisings for the fallen cops?

SPOILER ALERT- police officers are human.

Their lives matter in the midst of getting cursed, spit on, hit, ridiculed, mocked and urinated on because they STILL stand in front of you and protect you, even if you see differently. They still get up and put on the uniform knowing that they are going into a fire pit of hurtful words and actions. They continually bring justice to those who don't appreciate them.

Contrary to belief, officers don't go through all of the training and schooling to take lives, carry guns and write parking tickets. They base situations on a threat to threat basis. Deadly force is the last thing they want to use, if at all. They aren't serial killers, they value the entirety of a human life too.

The media chooses to show you the stories that will get attention, for example, Black Man Is Killed By White Cop or White Male Police Officer Shoots Black Man In Cold Blood.

You won't hear Black Man Kills White Cop, Black Cop Kills White Man or White Officer Helps Black Women In Situation because no one cares about that...isn't that sickening? The media is directing you in the middle of a racial frenzy.

And if you don't think the media is the problem, but rather the underlying fact that these situations keep happening why do we continue to turn against one another instead of coming together to find a solution? Killing more people isn't the answer, but the media sure wants your mind to grasp the fact that its how people are reacting to this.

When you get robbed, who do you call? When your car gets broken into and you're robbed, who is there to help you? When you wreck your car and can't move- who is the one to make sure you are okay before EMTs arrive? When you get shot at or your kid goes missing, who helps you?

We rely on cops to save us by day, but we protest their lives by night.

Step outside the box. Take of the blinder glasses. There are flaws in the system and in communities. Recognize the issue for what it is and come together, supporting the American fact that ALL LIVES MATTER.