A fun thing I have noticed on Reddit is that the people with the strongest opinions about who should be allowed to become a cop are usually the least informed about what police officers actually do day to day

There are a lot of things to be angry about here. I'm angry that police forces are sending cops to deal with protestors when they aren't equipped, trained, or tested in the situation. Angry that a huge portion of the public actually supports the idea that if you aren't bootlicking and obsequious when talking to cops, you deserve to be pepper-sprayed or beaten. Angry that combined with the fact that police are rarely reprimanded meaningfully for this kind of thing, it means that we're reinforcing a police culture of violence against citizens.

And at the same time, I'm angry that a lot of protest movements get co-opted by dumb and childish people who have little concept of reality and that it makes it really easy for people to dismiss legitimate protests. Angry that in a country where we've seen protest movements work extremely effectively, people refuse to learn from those protests, and continue putting together lazy, ineffectual protests that are easily discouraged with no meaningful resolutions. Angry that because people are either unwilling to learn or ignorant of the fact that there is something to learn, we are visibly sliding backward as a culture, not moving forward. Angry that uninformed college students don't think about even basic and obvious facts (like, blocking off roads means emergency vehicles can't use those roads) when they stage protests and that these people are the faces of progress and change in this country.

It's incredibly frustrating. We are not making any progress and nobody cares because, I guess, just the act of ineffectively protesting satisfies everybody's emotional need to work toward change. But it's not working, nothing is happening, and instead of caring, the thing people are angry about is that cops aren't physically big enough. Ugh. Fuck this.