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In the last few days I've seen videos of US policemen
1) Kill a person in the middle of the street, suffocating him
2) Taze an harmless overweight woman of age that was walking away (this could have easily ended up with another death)
And I can't wrap my head around this.
1) Kill a person in the middle of the street, suffocating him
2) Taze an harmless overweight woman of age that was walking away (this could have easily ended up with another death)
And I can't wrap my head around this.
What makes no sense for me is the frame in which this can happen.
The first case is painful to even think about. I saw the video and it tore me apart to see a young man gasping for air and an executioner ignoring his pray.
People *watched* that happen. People could just film it
The first case is painful to even think about. I saw the video and it tore me apart to see a young man gasping for air and an executioner ignoring his pray.
People *watched* that happen. People could just film it
and I think this is the problem: the authority of the police is basically absolute and people live in terror of the Law.
This is not right. The law is there to protect humans from each other, not to allow a group of them to slaughter another.
This is not right. The law is there to protect humans from each other, not to allow a group of them to slaughter another.
As a European when I lived in the US I felt the difference. I felt the fear and tension that surrounded the police. It was a shock for me.
I grew up in a place where seeing the police meant you were *safer*.
While I was there I witnessed a 16/18 years old kneel down and raise
I grew up in a place where seeing the police meant you were *safer*.
While I was there I witnessed a 16/18 years old kneel down and raise
his hands unnaturally quickly when engaged by a policeman. It's been four years and I still can't forget the look on his face, the fear for his life. (You can guess his skin color).
I have a question bouncing in my head when stuff like this happens.
I have a question bouncing in my head when stuff like this happens.
How is that a free country? How can people proudly say they live in a free country, the same country where a person is slowly killed in the streets and the only thing other ppl can do when that happens is *watch*.
This keeps happening. This is not freedom. This is oppression.
This keeps happening. This is not freedom. This is oppression.
The discrepancies between how the US is seen from within and how it is are absurd. I wonder if the culture over there is just inculcated into young minds and people are led to believe (as in acolytes of a cult) that it is right, even in the face of evidence of the contrary.i
I would like to know how stuff like this keeps happening, and keeps happening again, and an astonishing proportion of people still think that there is nothing to change, nothing to improve.
