Police culture is such a terrible problem in the United States. "Shoot first and ask questions later." "Officer safety." And racism.

I watched a really disturbing video the other night in which a bunch of paramedics and cops refused to take an elderly Black man to the hospital.

He appeared to be homeless, and they presumed that he was either drunk or high. He wasn't. He was dying from an acute illness. He was having trouble breathing, and he couldn't keep his balance.

They forced him out of the back of an ambulance as he staggered and tried to stay upright. Not one cop offered him so much as a steadying hand as he visibly struggled to get out without falling.

Then he staggered to a nearby bench, but was not able to sit down. As he tried, he fell on his face, hard enough to to cause a little blood to pool on the pavement.

By that time, something like six or eight cops were on scene, and not a single one of them offered him compassion or care. They just milled around joking with one another while he lay on the ground, on his face, bleeding.

After many minutes passed, somebody finally decided they'd better see if he was all right. He wasn't. He was unconscious. He later died from his illness.

I commented to some friends after I watched the video that farmers treat their animals better than those cops treated that man.

But that's the cop culture we're dealing with in the United States. It's cruel, and callous, and racist, and utterly inhumane. And as you've just shown, it leads to shooting kids.

Our cop culture needs fundamental, radical change.