Once, when writing about the frequent moral necessity of breaking the law, I wrote in parenthethes, "Rosa Parks back of the bus."

I thought that was something that would resonate. I think almost all people intuitively understand that Rosa Park did the right thing by refusing to move to the back of a bus where there were no available seats. She broke the law on purpose, and arguably the U.S. is a better place for her lawbreaking.

We have a big problem with legalism in the United States today, particularly among politically conservative people and cops.

Your story about rushing your pregnant wife to the hospital reminds me of a video I watched just the other day of a cop turning a grandmother's face into hamburger after dragging her from her car and throwing her to the ground.

She had been speeding, because she was rushing her 3-year-old granddaughter to the hospital. The child was bleeding, the grandmother didn't know why, and she was terrified.

The cop who stopped her barely even let her explain what was happening before he got violent. She was trying to ask him to help her get to the hospital, but instead of helping her he beat her up. He literally beat her up as several other cops stood by watching.

The police department later vigorously defended all of them for enforcing the law.

The public are horrified, but the police union says we need a little more respect for police. I'd tell you how much I don't respect police, but it's not fit to print on Medium.

I see a lot of incidents like this, especially now that body cams are more prevalent, and violent police are a very big problem in the United States.

What I don't get is how thoroughly they seem to be supported by conservative people, and by that I mostly mean by conservative Christians.