I read a lot of Reason.com and used to be a regular reader of Radley Balko back when he had his own blog and between that material and stuff like Three Felonies A Day I'm pretty much on board with the idea that extensive laws are encroaching on our freedoms. Other problems:
institutional attempts to silence proponents of jury nullification, federal workarounds for local bans on asset forfeiture, general police sloppiness and police union protections for bad cops, and corruption at all levels, zealous prosecution of the drug war, etc. I think we put people in jail to readily, we leave them in prison for too long, we continue to punish too much once a prisoner has served their time and we have too many laws that obviously should be repealed...

But BLM picks a lot of cases that are not clear-cut and argues this or that really bad dude was wronged by police and I want to step off the train. Why can't they keep focused on 'not really bad dudes' and how can I support them when they stick up for some guy who gets shot by cops immediately after committing strong-arm robbery?

Then I read something like "The Toxoplasma of Rage" and it all makes sense again. Of course BLM publicizes loopy cases - the structure of our media landscape practically demands it. There's a reason Radley Balko is relegated to some obscure media blog and BLM gets coverage whenever they want it - he's not willing to go to bad for really bad dudes because he isn't willing to be wrong when it turns out they're lying about how the police treated them.

So I will keep believing that police are too aggressive, that they abuse authority through asset forfeiture, that they can usually get away with murder, that they close ranks to lie and protect each other when their abuses come to light, and that they should always be wearing a body camera that is 'on' and that the footage should not be withheld from the public, etc. And BLM will continue to be an organization that I don't support, even though I probably agree with most reforms they are pursuing.

Finally, I do not "see what they did there" and would appreciate an explanation.