Yes, thanks, I read that too, an excellent article that also explains how common police abuse in the U.S. of black and brown people is, how common it is that police get away with it, and what the judicial culture is like that harbors and fosters such impunity. It should be required reading everywhere in the U.S., but sadly (as the article also says), that article provides a perspective that gets very little attention. Even as so many of us have been taught to rail against all things associated with “the government,” we’re a fearful, authority-loving nation, and thus so many of us worship the police in general, about as much as they worship soldiers “fighting” globally in our various imperialist resource-grabs.
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