So I'm going to talk about a thing that happened in Peru, and put it side by side with something that happened in the USA. A thread.

A few days ago there was a police raid on an illicit discoteca, and a stampede on the part of people trying to escape it, and 13 people died.

Around the same time, a Black guy in the USA was leaving the scene of an altercation between some other people, since the police were now there to handle it, and instead of handling the altercation, the police shot the guy 7 times in the back.

Here, the death of 13 people is all over the news -- with people calling for 35 years to life in prison for the police who conducted the discoteca raid, because the police -- who didn't shoot anybody in the back -- are seen has having been out of line.

The discoteca's doors didn't open to the outside and that's how the deaths happened in the stampede, which also happened apparently because a lot of the people at the discoteca had criminal records.

But many (most?) people still think the police overstepped with the raid.

Even where people are like "that discoteca was a bad scene and those people had criminal records," nobody thinks they should have died, or that police were just fine and doing their jobs.

Meanwhile, the USA story is also on the news, and people here?

They're like "holy shit, look how incredibly fucked up police are in the USA, I mean they shot this man SEVEN TIMES IN THE BACK and he wasn't IN the altercation and seriously, how does anybody in the USA call the cops for anything, like ever? I know I wouldn't."

I don't think anybody outside the USA understands why USA police are like this, why there can be literal riots about police brutality all June long and then in August they're all right back at it because actually THEY NEVER EVEN STOPPED.

Sometimes people in the USA are like "fuck your opinions as someone who left the USA" and I get that's where they're at, but like, if the whole world is saying "Damn, you've gotta get a handle on this shit," maybe... maybe there's some validity to that?

Anyway, I thought some of y'all might be interested in hearing the comparison in public opinions about perceived police overreach.

That's all.