Editorial: Good cop, bad cop? Jan. 6 hearings remind us it’s more complicated (via latimesopinion)
investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “I’m trained to detain a couple of subjects … but I’m not combat-trained. And that day, it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat.”, but Edwards’ testimony still resonates. Her words, together with video previously unseen by the public, drive home the violent reality of that day.
There was nothing to stop the violent horde but Edwards and a few hundred other Capitol police and District of Columbia Metropolitan police officers. But instead of retreating to safety, they did their best to prevent the rioters from entering the Capitol building, and they did it long enough for members of Congress to escape. They stood in what was — yes, we’ll say it — a thin blue line, protecting the law, the Capitol and the nation.
Thin blue line is the term long used by law enforcement officers to describe themselves as the tough but narrow layer that divides good from evil, order from chaos, right from wrong.The term has always had a certain measure of “us versus them” — cops on one side, and on the other a public that could never understand or respect just what sacrifices police made on its behalf.
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