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You only need to watch the first five minutes:

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That’s horrible. Good on the citizen.

Keep watching.

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Only lately counts? What’s your statute of limitations on unjustified killings?

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Yes. She has dementia, and slipped family care.

And, good on the man for standing up to the lawman, who went right to bullying an old woman because she wasn’t obedient.

I don’t know about Wally world’s policy, but I always instructed my crew(s) to leave it be if a shoplifter or thief surrendered the merchandise. In fact, for my last big retail gig, policy was to let it go out the store, because a Snickers is no reason to provoke a confrontation.

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Should be handled on a case by case basis, one cop or some cops, is not every cop.

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“We’re good either way”. I wonder what she took. Probably food. She’s obviously scared she won’t have money.

Makes me want to vomit.

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It is systemic.

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The problem is national. Our response to unrest, since the 1950s, has been to militarize the police instead of letting people be - and I don’t just mean ‘the right people’.

I mean everyone.

Leaving David Koresh and the Branch Davidians alone, no matter what anyone thinks of their doctrines or the general creepiness of culty group marriages, would have hurt or endangered whom? Leaving Fred Hampton and the Panthers alone, to walk and feed and shelter their own neighborhoods would have hurt which powerful man?

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The Denver news station reported about $12 merchandise. He broke her wrist for $12 of stuff Walmart had already recovered.

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Yeah that’s what they said about corruption back in the day, when most metro police departments were being paid off for top to bottom by the Mafia or just garden variety gamblers and gangsters.

Took Frank Serpico being shot in the head after revealing the NYPD plainclothes pad to the New York Times to get the ball rolling. There’s always a tipping point and we’re past it on police brutality.

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What the hell happened to us?

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More

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Americans are, in inverse relation to claims of self-reliance and independence, quite docile. The French cripple their entire economy if a Macron or Sarkozy even hint that six weeks leisure is too much.

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We have put agents of the state on a pedestal. We are conditioned.

Reliance on government. Government is always right. There’s nothing I can do.

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Happened? Policing is actually significantly less brutal now than it was at any point back in the day and it still sucks. Mass roundups. Vagrancy laws to lock up anyone who didn’t have cash in their pocket or in some states weren’t actively employed. Routine beatings on the street and in interrogations. Minorities not permitted to leave their designated areas.

There’s no idyllic past to go back to. This is how it’s always been.

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We have 4K live streaming cameras in our pockets now.

It’s always been this way… now we have video.

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Oh I know. Believe me I know. But we can see it now and we accept it.

Are we incapable of saying “That’s wrong, stop!”?

Apathy may be the most cardinal of all sins.

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There is no English equivalent for the widespread “a bas l’etat.” (roughly ‘bring down the state’)

The French original, I think, was the even more obvious ‘a bas l’etat policier’.

("down the police state’)

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Look man, those small businesses aren’t gonna just burn and riot themselves.

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Because people are not just okay with it but actively in favor of it as long as they think it’s being done to the right people. The right people being people who don’t look like them.