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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Its alarming that these people in positions of authority dont view black people as humans and wont hesitate to kill them with no real remorse.

And remember this has been a rampant problem for decades we've only seen a glimpse of this behavior thanks to social media and camera phones everywhere. It's a shame no one took this seriously until george Floyd's death. I'm thankful everyday I dont live in America the cops here in Canada arnt nearly as bad.

We did though. As a Saint Louisan I was there for the Michael Brown protests and later the Stockely protests. People took those seriously. They were beaten and teargassed and arrested for it.

I think it was the sheer brutality of Floyd's murder and the callous indifference of the cops to the man's suffering all being caught on tape that finally forced people who could just pass shit off as "welp he shouldn't have done [insert crime not punishable by summary execution here]" to really look at things. The cops then meeting peaceful protests with overwhelming brutality certainly pushed even more people to look at the system as a whole.

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