4 ms·
Uhh what? The instigating event which founded our country was a monarchy. I would argue that slaves and indigenous populations experienced a violent dictatorsh
by thephyber 6y ago
Uhh what? The instigating event which founded our country was a monarchy.
I would argue that slaves and indigenous populations experienced a violent dictatorship.
I don't think it's actually too much to expect that our officers fix their own culture. I just think it won't happen because they have a toxic tradition of ignoring the cultural cues given by civilian leadership (except the ones that praise police forces no matter how bad they act).
- throwawaygh 6y agoIn some ways, your parent hits the nail on the head. Policing in America is so brutal because we don’t acknowledge that we were a brutal apartide state for most of the 20th century, and a racial dictatorship for the first half of our history.