Sydney

Like I said, multiple sponsors and organizations pink wash and virtue signal, sounds like more than just Police need to be excluded if that's the criteria for exclusion.

I think a clear distinction needs to be drawn also. It wasn't a policeman that murdered a gay person. They weren't carrying out an order of the institution or acting on the institutions behalf. They are a person that (allegedly) murdered someone that just happened to be a Police.

As for locking out you know what I meant, asking someone not to show up in Police uniform is in effect asking someone to suppress part of their identity. "yeah you can come, but only if you don't show that your a member of the Police". Whatever faults the Police have currently, do people honestly think society would function without the Police? I just think some folks need a reality check.

The fact is the police for many is similar to being a nurse or a doctor, where it is very much a calling due to the demands and pressure of the job. And this is why so many in the Police are just absolutely sickened by this murder because it goes against their entire ethos on top of the murder itself.

The truth is the guy was a nutter. And even if he wasn't part of Police he was probably going to go off the deep end sooner or later no matter what his profession was.

That being said, I do have some concerns about gun access by control within the Police force and some questions do need to be answered there.

At the end of the day Pride is neither here or there for me, I don't have much skin in the game. But it does annoy me somewhat that people aren't being entirely rational and are looking for someone to blame, easy answers and someone to point the finger at. Life's often not fair, bad things happen to good people and no, it's not all the fault of the Police, this murder included.

There is nuance and context to everything and throwing the baby out with the bath water is in my view a misdirected overreaction.