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Maybe, but it didn't used to be this way even as recently as the 80s. And it isn't like this in most other countries (at least the European ones km aware of).
It's a cultural thing, and training, and it can be fixed, we just have to want to fix it bad enough. No idea what will be the tipping point. George Floyd wasn't enough, so I'm not sure what if anything will be. Or if we'll just go deeper I to this police state mentality where everything is an us vs them situation.
What talking about cops Always been this way. Especially in the 80's and 90's when we didn't have recordings devices. Remember Rodney King?
Are you too young to remember the Rodney King protests? They literally had to call in the Marines and the Army to quell them. That was in 1991, and a result of police brutality against an unarmed Black man.
Edit: Wanted to add that police in general came from slave patrols. It was a racist institution designed to instill terror into people of color from the very beginning. It was never about "serving and protecting."
Yes, I was a baby in 1991. I don't have data, but I've heard anecdotes from former police officers that police training has changed significantly since the 80s.
It's definitely become much more militarized.
I don't disagree with that, but it would be false to say that police brutality directed at people of color is a new thing. That's always been there.
I never said police violence directed at people of color was a new thing.
My point, which I think wasn't very clear bcz I worded it poorly is that police are trained to draw their guns immediately today and shoot to kill. That didn't used to be the case.
That, I do agree with. It's been militarized in the last 20-30 years for sure.
The militarization accelerated due to events where the police took an ass whoopin like the North Hollywood bank robbery.
Maybe don't believe police officer anecdotes?
Warrior training has taken like wildfire, they’re trained to do anything to survive and put into the mindset that if they don’t kill they will be killed.
Thanks to that shitbag Grossman they get all the violence with none of the rules of engagement
There just wasn't high definition evidence from the time youre thinking of. Give this 20 years and I bet any video recordings of average police behavior will be "deepfakes".
Nothing to see here citizen. Now pick up this can...
It’s always happened. There just used to not be cameras all around all the time.
Rodney King was the 90s George Floyd.