Cornish says his letter is a response to the activist groups wondering how to reduce the use of police force. He says it\u2019s not complicated, and he provides a list for how to not get shot by police.<\/p>\n
In a phone interview with WCCO, Cornish says he\u2019s tired of news stories about police violence in which the *cops* get blamed for using excessive or deadly force against people he calls \u201cthugs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see all these cop videos where they give order after order, and they just stand there and something bad happens and they wonder why in the world that happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n I want to ask “is it too much to wish that everyone in the world, citizens and cops\u00a0both, had the good common sense not to be idiots and pocket tyrants?”, but if you study any human nature at all, you’ll know it’s really only a rhetorical question.<\/p>\n Speaking of rhetoric (I’m adding emphasis):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n [Minneapolis NAACP president Nekima] Levy-Pounds called the letter \u201cracist,\u201d and \u201cintolerable,\u201d with coded language<\/strong> aimed at the African American community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n Coded language.<\/p>\n See my preface above. \u00a0When someone accuses someone of “coded language”, what they’re saying is “you’re not saying what\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em> think you’re saying, and you’re not thinking what you think you’re thinking. \u00a0You’re saying and thinking what\u00a0I\u00a0<\/em>say you’re saying and thinking. \u00a0And boy oh boy, are you an awful person for saying what I’m saying you’re really saying!”<\/p>\n I get it. \u00a0Political rhetoric ain’t beanbag. \u00a0But invoking “coded language” is the weasel’s argument.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s drawing upon racial stereotypes that people often use to justify the use of excessive force against African-Americans, even when African-Americans \u2014 who are unarmed \u2014 are killed by law enforcement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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