What's This?

Mope-rah must have hit detox again - she's making occasional sense (but no link for her until she makes sense consistently.) She's still drinking the Special Ed Kool-Aid a bit:

• Interim police Supt. Charlie Beck said it best when he summed up the downfall of former top cop Eddie Johnson:
  
  “Everybody makes mistakes,” Beck said. “But we have to live with that.”
  
  So I’m not dancing on Johnson’s grave. After a 31-year career, Johnson was tripped up by behavior unbecoming a married man and a police chief, behavior that ended with him slumped over the steering wheel of his car.
  
  Because Johnson had only weeks till retirement, Mayor Lori Lightfoot could have let him off. But she didn’t. Lightfoot fired Johnson, saying he lied to her and the public about what took place that night. His firing resulted in more than an ugly end to a stellar career. It has triggered an investigation into a possible cover-up.

Stellar? Not even close Mopey. But this set of paragraphs surprised us:

• Which brings me to the next cop incident that exposes expectations that sometimes are unreasonable.
  
  The police say that, on Thanksgiving, Bernard Kersh was drinking alcohol at a bus stop on the South Side and, when confronted by officers, “spit” in the eye and mouth of one of them. A cellphone video showed the officer throwing Kersh to the ground.
  
  Obviously, the video of a police officer body-slamming a man whose head is smacked against a curb is hard to stomach. Where I grew up, though, Kersh would have suffered a great deal more than being body-slammed. He would have been beaten to a pulp.
  
  I’m not suggesting that’s what the police should have done. But the police reform effort is working. The city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability moved quickly to strip the officer of his police powers after the video surfaced on social media. A second officer was later stripped of his powers while COPA does a “use-of-force” investigation.
  
  Kersh ended up in a hospital and remains in custody on charges including aggravated battery of a peace officer. I think these police officers showed a lot more restraint than many of us would have. And if body-slamming is considered excessive force under these circumstances, I’d like to know what we expect police officers to do.
  
  They are not robots. From the top cop down to patrol officers, they are flawed human beings like the rest of us. Sometimes, we need to be reminded of that.

Well Mopey, you're certainly in a position to do a bit of that "reminding" you speak of. Can you imagine the outrage if someone of a pale-complexion gobbed on you? You'd have material for a few columns, maybe for a few years. We on the other hand, racked up our third spitting incident just this year the other day, this time as a witness. The incidents didn't make the news because no cameras were rolling other than Department ones, and no one seems to care. Why is that?