(CNN) -- People have strong views about the way police officers treat minorities -- and they're eager to share those opinions. That became clear after CNN asked people on Twitter to use #AskACop to pose questions to police officers. Police conduct has been in the spotlight since the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The idea was that the network would use that hashtag to mine social media for questions to ask current and former police officers for a show that aired Tuesday night. People on Twitter responded in force, making #AskACop a trending hashtag well into Wednesday. People posted message after message -- but many of them were eager to make a point rather than ask a question.
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CNN starts #AskACop so people can pose police questions amid great debate
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Many Twitter users pick up on the hashtag, using it to vent at police officers
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Some suggest black people are treated differently, more at risk from police
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"Just take a look at #AskACop" to see public's view of police, one man tweets
Another wrote, "@placeholder if they know people are praying every day that they make the right choices in their stressful jobs."