You ' re not wrong . One of the biggest watershed moments in the history of LGBT rights was the Stonewall riots , which was directly caused because police would frequently raid an LGBT club and assault and jail LGBT people inside it . Even for those of us who never lived through it , this was a defining moment in our shared history . And there have been countless cases since then of police acting as violent oppressors . It ' s definitely getting better in recent years in some areas , and shouldn ' t be justification for blanket exclusion of someone as happened in the OP ' s article , but LGBT people are going to be wary of police as a rule . <| sep |> Except it ' s only the first 10 for CC . And you don ' t have to wait in line . Thank you NCIX .