It does seem like a side has to be picked, and I have never been a Back the Blue kind of guy. I never hated cops, but generally speaking any interaction I ever had with them sucked.
But the events since the BLM riots up until what we're seeing once again in Minneapolis have definitely changed my outlook. I don't want fascism. I don't want a police state. But I most certainly do not support godless commie scum who love lawlessness, either.
I say squash this shit now hard and fast. The problem I see is once that can of worms is opened there's no going back.
I would say the same, of all the experiences with law enforcement I probably have two which were negative. Mind you I haven't had many run ins at all but to only have two outliers, even being bad outliers, would lead me to side with law and order. One was when I was young and it was the cops just being dicks for no reason which eventually went my way but the other one was much more serious, I was accused in a report of a very serious incident by 3 letter agency of flat out lying when I had completely 100% immediately cooperated and the reasoning for calling me a liar just made no sense whatsoever, all they had to do was call me back to clarify if they didn't understand something I cooperated completely even to my own detriment. That one still makes me angry in fact they both do but I do understand that we need law enforcement.