You can’t have #capitalism and not have #PoliceBrutality. In fact, the police was initially intended to be just that: B R U T A L.

Why? You can’t have a system that allows the robbery of millions for the benefit of the few and expect not having an institution that maintains it.
And the situation becomes more alarming in petty-capitalist societies like Tanzania where you’ve voracious petty capitalists (read investors) who are willing to suck even the last drop of blood out of their hungry workers just to amass more profit (and make to the Forbes’ list).
That’s why, in the case of Tanzania, the Police were willing to be used by Chinese capitalist managers in arresting, and humiliating, workers (they’re forced to have sex intercourse w/ each other, following allegations from that the workers “stole.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/cpj.org/amp/031039.html
Rarely, if ever, does the police comes at the defense of workers in their conflicts w/ capitalists. And it surprises no one for that’s the exact function of the police, both historically and practically.
Four years ago, the Police, doing what they’re supposed to do, used tear gas to disperse Pepsi’s workers in Tanzania, who were on strike to demand the improvement of their working conditions and given fair contracts
Here’s a police commander from Morogoro who confesses to have gone to a factory whose managers wanted the workers to tell three-month leave w/out pay “so that [the factory’] properties are not damaged.”
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