White Supremacists in Law Enforcement

The fury in the response of police officers to protesters across the nation is shocking to me.   The kettling of protesters so as to shoot them with rubber bullets and gas is purposeful and malicious.  The use of chemical inhalants meant to disable people in the time of a respiratory pandemic with no treatment or cure is in and of itself a crime, in my mind.  Video after video of police officers approaching kneeling or with their hands up, ripping their masks off, spraying them directly in the face, pushing them over is so violent and unnecessary in the use of force makes it very hard to believe that these officers in uniform are working for the community they are employed by.  They appear to be acting like hired gangsters.
Why is this happening?  The police I work with would work assiduously to de-escalate these situations, not throw gasoline of them and throw a match.  The answer has been known for quite some time.  The 2006 report by the FBI describing the systematic infiltration of law enforcement with white supremacists being a pervasive problem to be addressed has been ignored.  The current administration encourages and glorifies the demonstration by white nationalists of violence as a means to an end.  The time has come to look at other ways than policing to address the enforcement of laws in cities across the nation.  Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York City are already moving in that direction, and there needs to be more decisive action in this arena.