Even by his high standards for righteous outrage, Gene O'Donnell was unusually agitated when he declared June 2, "You basically saw the collapse of policing in urban America over the weekend."
He accused "Mayors of progressive cities" of setting impossible standards for cops when it came to using force that would require them to be "pure and infallible." With their jobs at stake if their actions weren't beyond reproach, he continued, "What urban cop is going to get involved in the middle of a riot? People are looting, they come in trucks...you have major cities looted from stem to stern."
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