MORE TENSE. JUST WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT IS GOING ON. THERE ARE A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS, AND THEY DO HAVE THEIR SHIELDS. YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE THEM RIGHT THERE. ONE MAN RIGHT OVER HERE JUST WANT TO SHAKE A POLICE OFFICERS HAND, AND THE WHOLE IDEA HE SAYS, IS THAT NOT ALL POLICE ARE BAD. SEE THAT HANDSHAKE. THAT IS HAPPENING. HE SPECIFICALLY SAID HE WANTED TO COME UP AND SAY NOT ALL POLICE ARE BAD, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I SHAKE YOUR HAND. I TOLD HIM JUST NOW, I’M GOING TO SPEAK TO HIM FOR ONE MOMENT. BUT IF YOU GO AHEAD AND DECIDE YOU WANT TO DO THAT? >> THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS LIKE US. THEY ARE MEN IN UNIFORM JUST DOING THEIR JOB. NOT ALL COPS ARE DEAD, THERE ARE JUST A FEW BAD EGGS. THERE ARE A LOT OF YOUNG KIDS WHO JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT. THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE THAT NEED TO GET OUT OF THE POSITION. REPORTER: WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO COME DOWN TO THIS PROTEST? >> TO SHOW SUPPORT. THERE IS A LOT OF CORRUPTION GOING ON IN THE SYSTEM. WE NEED TO GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT, JUST ABOUT AS SHOW SUPPORT FOR EVERYONE. GEORGE FLOYD,. REPORTER: MAMA THING. THIS GROUP, NOT GOING ANYWHERE. ARE YOU HOPEFUL THEY WILL CONTINUE THIS PEACEFUL MESSAGE? >> JUST AS LONG IT IS PEACEFUL AND LAWFUL. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. REPORTER: YOUR NAME IS? >> NATHAN. I’M FROM BOSTON. REPORTER: THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME. NATHAN’S MESSAGE THERE, HE CAME UP T
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‘Not all cops are bad’: Protester shakes hands with police officer during tense demonstration
Updated: 11:47 PM EDT Jun 2, 2020
Amid a tense demonstration, a Boston man offered a sign of peace to a police officer.Nathan Garvin, who lives in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood, shook hands with a Boston police officer outside the Forest Hills station to prove that not all police officers are bad.”Quite honestly, I mean, they’re human beings like us,” Garvin said. “They’re men in uniform just doing their job. Not all cops are bad. There are just a few bad eggs and there are just a lot of young kids that don’t understand that, but they need to understand that.”Garvin said he decided to attend a protest in Franklin Park on Tuesday and continue to demonstrate at Forest Hills to show support George Floyd and the other victims of police brutality.”There’s a lot of corruption going on in the (justice) system,” he said. “We need to get those people out.”Garvin said he would continue to support protests throughout the night as long as those demonstrations remain peaceful and lawful.
Amid a tense demonstration, a Boston man offered a sign of peace to a police officer.
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Nathan Garvin, who lives in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood, shook hands with a Boston police officer outside the Forest Hills station to prove that not all police officers are bad.
“Quite honestly, I mean, they’re human beings like us,” Garvin said. “They’re men in uniform just doing their job. Not all cops are bad. There are just a few bad eggs and there are just a lot of young kids that don’t understand that, but they need to understand that.”
Garvin said he decided to attend a protest in Franklin Park on Tuesday and continue to demonstrate at Forest Hills to show support George Floyd and the other victims of police brutality.
“There’s a lot of corruption going on in the (justice) system,” he said. “We need to get those people out.”
Garvin said he would continue to support protests throughout the night as long as those demonstrations remain peaceful and lawful.
