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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
What a stupid thing Freeman said. He walked it back later. But yeah, hard not to see how Chauvin could not have formed the requisite criminal intent as he slowly and methodically crushed the life out of Floyd. This city is getting boarded up and shut down right now.
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We agree on very little lately, but I agree with this. There is no struggle, there is no reason not to pick him up and put him in the patrol car. The cop just sits there. He registers the crowd's statements, the man's pleas, and he just sits there.
But moving past that, WHY DO WE LIVE IN A POLICE STATE?
Why do cops get army equipment that's been discarded?
Why do they need predictive software that allows them to run
Minority Report (NPI) scenarios on people in the inner cities? (Thanks, you fucking scumbags at IBM, and you, Peter Thiel.)
Why do we need cameras on the corners?
Why do they need to tap our phones?
Why do they need access to our data?
Why does every crime have to be met with the most extreme charge?
Do we need four fucking cops to investigate a bad check?
Why is there civil and criminal forfeiture that allows the state to take property from people and then force the people to prove they're entitled to its return?
Why do we jail more people than China and Russia per capita?
Why do we jail people for decades for non-violent crimes?
Why did we ever have the War on Drugs?
CRIME IS DOWN AND HAS BEEN DOWN FOR SOME TIME.
None of this shit is justified. It's evidence of a growing police state, the wages of imbecilic "tough on crime" laws favored by the dumbest fucking voters among us and paranoia about "terrorists among us."
And if we get social unrest as a result of the economic fallout from this virus, expect this to get a whole lot worse. "Never let a crisis go to waste," will be the whispered goal of the thugs and Orwellians.
