That's exactly what I have learned. It has helped me immensely in my career as a mediator, a student of nonviolence and my work with end stage cancer patients and their families.
A knowledge of someone's history and testimony prevents us from seeing them in a superficial way and learning their actual good intentions behind their behavior.
Unless we do the heavy lifting to connect with the abuse and dismissive treatment we got as a child, we will continue to unwittingly treat others in our life as we were treated.
We should fully grieve our childhood and then move on.
I certainly would help. But if I were the member of a minority which always had to contend with police behavior towards myself and others, I would wisely stay out of the whole thing.
And this is nothing new. Police largely don't get much respect or cooperation in minority communities. For good, understandable reasons.
Of course it is the case that both the guilty and the innocent "lawyer up." I am surprised most police authorities and folks like yourself do not believe this.
Redemption is ultimately a private affair. Just because we are made right with God does not mean we publicly parade around our perfections. Jesus didn't think much of the people who did this in his own day.
