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>>MDWoli+(OP)
United States is a police state. I said it 20 years ago, people laughed. Now you see if for yourself. American police have positioned themselves as the enemy of the people because they see people as their enemy. And the only way to stop the enemy is by applying brute force. If they're doing all this in front of cameras, imagine what they do when nobody is looking.

Whereas in other countries, such as the UK, police are considered civilians in a uniform and behave accordingly.

>>bsd44+Zf
How did this come about, is it the consequence of an armed society, or something else unique to Americans?

>>_xerce+vh
Racism is a hell of a drug. It's the US's original sin. One it has never truly confronted in any lasting manner.

>>ttfkam+ko
> One it has never truly confronted in any lasting manner.

I mean, the US has come a long way from chattel slavery, Jim Crow laws, Chinese exclusion acts, Irish exclusion, Italian exclusion, Catholics, etc. It did recently have a black president. Yes it has a very long way to go, but there has been a lot of progress in it's history.