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>>laurex+(OP)
Here's another article uncovering the brutality of the police [1]. Some of the scenes are really inhuman [2] and I feel sorry for the poor people trying to make their voices heard.

I hope, that both sides, the protesters and police force will find a way, to exit that spiral of violence. But right now it looks like this won't happen. It's a shame.

If the state acts harder against protesters, journalists and civilian bystanders it will only fuel their anger. Leading to more violence, used by the state to issue a even worse crackdown than now. And so on and so on.

The only hope that I have is, that other politicians from all parties will stand up against that.

[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/05/31/us-law-e...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byk2axDVNHE

>>zubspa+s5
> I hope, that both sides, the protesters and police force will find a way, to exit that spiral of violence.

The two sides are massively unequal in terms of power, the onus is on the police to stop the violence.

>>steffa+Zb
The onus is on both. One may be able to do it better, and more conveniently, but everyone's responsible for doing their bit in ceasing and stopping violence.

>>brobdi+lq
You understand why the protests started though, right? It's not like the protesters can say "ok, if we stop protesting now, will you please consider following the law?"

How to you expect protesters to deescalate this with absolutely nothing changing and high level LE people still not accepting any blame and pushing for military help?

>>virapt+kw
You understand why US cops are so heavy handed though, right? It may be because they have to deal with a population with 3 guns per capita, where the amount of police killed per year on duty(even disregarding accidents) is more akin to a third world country than anything going on in the EU.

> and high level LE people still not accepting any blame

I don't know how you get that from OP saying that both sides need to de-escalate.

>>oh_sig+q11
> It may be because they have to deal with a population with 3 guns per capita

where did you find this figure? this is off by more than a factor of two from any source I can find.

>>leetcr+Z11
Sorry, I took the total gun count(~400M) and didn't state that I did some math based on how many adults there are in the US since children and the extremely elderly tend to own far fewer guns than run of the mill adults.

The result is still more or less the same if there is 1.1 guns per capita.

>>oh_sig+e51
per capita in run of the mill statistics is just a raw division of things over population (people or other organism in question). per capita income isn't dividing total income over "employed earners" for example.