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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Because a lot of whites are scared of blacks and want the police to protect them, and are willing to excuse almost anything the police do in that name. What's different now is that lots of people are walking around with cameras that they can use to record what happens all the time.
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That explains why the govt collects metadata on you and me and buys military hardware for suburban police forces? That explains why we jail people of all colors for ludicrous periods of time for non-violent crimes? That explains why fed sentences are based not on egregiousness of crime so much as amount of dollars stolen?
I totally agree with what you said, but it’s one piece of a much bigger push toward a police/security state.
