Today the amazing life of Aretha Franklin is being remembered at a funeral service in Detroit. What a legendary woman! As I watched some of the coverage I noticed a very large police presence for the funeral. And I thought how ironic.
After suffering a most embarrassing event in Madison where OutReach, the gay community center, caved like a souffle when confronted with outlandish demands from the always outraged Socialists, the African American community in Motor City, meanwhile, had no problem with uniformed police. OutReach banned all law enforcement from participating in the recent Gay Pride Parade. The fans of Franklin, who massed for her funeral, had no qualms walking by (gasp!) police in uniform.
This underscores why so much of the drama, as proven by OutReach, is nothing but the continuation of a very false narrative about the professional men and women who wear blue. Because it is clear scores of the black community had no problem with police being at the funeral.
Maybe OutReach should have taken off their knee pads and acted with some intelligence when dealing with Madison and Dane County law enforcement.
CAFFEINATED POLITICS 
Hopefully, Johanna Heineman-Pieper was not at the funeral. She would have been uncomfortable with the Detroit Police Department honor guard at the funeral, parading with rifles in hand, honoring the Queen of Soul.
It was nice that the organizers of the funeral, unlike Outreach, did not mind giving their local police an opportunity to show their support and R-E-S-P-E-C-T!