Not to tee off on your friend's one particular analogy, but:

"There are no good cops" until you need to call 911. As someone who works within "the system", I would tell your friend that the overwhelming majority of cops are good cops. Also overwhelmed, outnumbered and outgunned in high-crime areas, and faced with a public that is often hostile, distrusting, and shoving camera phones in their faces at traffic stops.

I'm the last to say the police are always right. But the officer on the street (and the line officer in the prison system) is making life or death decisions all the time, that most people will never face. The default decision has to be to protect themselves first. It's easier to critique these decisions than to make them.

Sorry... this is one of my buttons.

I just let it roll. I am a boomer, I remember Kent State and the moon landing. I am a Hippie, ie my user name. I think this is blow back and we're going to get a bit of spray. How often have the millennials been put down for just for being? I got compared to a millennial. My Gen X supervisor told me I was acting like a whiny millennial by asking for feedback on what I did right.... That and a few other things were an awakening. I think the anger is directed at the Gen X. I have three children that are millennials. They are angry. They are a product of their upbringing and now they are getting shat on by Gen X and Boomers. They may never be able to retire. They will likely not have SS or Medicare. I'd like to slap all the conservative rethuglican members of my generation and ask them what the hell they are thinking. They have become corporate mindless bots. They have missed our calling. My parent's generation, the Greatest Generation is rolling in their graves over what the f--king president is doing. There is just tons of anger out there, and I don't blame the millennials for being scared and angry. They're overloaded. Don't respond in anger. Let them know we're working for the same cause.

Jealousy

My awareness of OK Boomers is recent. Now I've a better understanding. My birth date was after the great generation but before boomers, but they may consider me a boomer,; though, I fathered no babies. For the past twenty years, I've been retried, so they have had my job. However, I intend to work again.

The jobs aren't going to boomers and immigrants; they are going to automation. If I'm lucky, I'll create a few jobs.

My sympathy goes out to millennials, capitalist CEOs have screwed the environment in the race to sell to boomers, and become rich. We were ignorant of the way criminals manipulated us and gamed the system, until some of us realized, and Trump was elected.

Hippies, like me, do not like the US thing as it is, and we've opposed it from time to time in the past. We have failed to keep a the government honest and empathetic. The millennials are angry with us, and rightly so. I am not particularly happy with my inconsequential role. I hope younger people do better than the boomers, but they have an difficult task.

As one who was there we must remember despite the counter-culture and anti-war movements of the late 60's Richard Nixon still won by a landslide in 1972 - lest we forget. and the majority of Boomers unlike myself went on to become Yuppies and drove Beemers and became part of the establishment that voted for Ronnie Ray-gun... Those of us who remain true to our rebellious roots are and were in the minority and the majority of Boomer sold this country and the earth to the highest bidders in corporate America... we were unable to elect Ralph Nader or any others that could have made a real difference. So maybe Boomers deserve to be called out - if not personally then you should not take offense and look at who they are speaking to if it is not you?

I wonder if it's mostly Republican boomers who are problematic. I also wonder if this isn't a right-wing instigation, to drive wedges between generations of liberal progressives.

That whole call out culture is really dangerous. Lumping people all together, not acknowledging there are shades of grey just makes progress harder.