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700 cases of police brutality is indeed less than 100k deaths caused by authoritarian dictatorship. As a democratic country we’re trying to avoid it with peacef

700 cases of police brutality is indeed less than 100k deaths caused by authoritarian dictatorship. As a democratic country we’re trying to avoid it with peaceful organization and protest, but our law enforcement keeps violating our constitutional rights.

throw7373 6y ago
Ok, look how France or Greece deals with riots. Water canoons, tear gas, rubber bullets, internet shutdown, checkpoints on every city block... 700 cases is very low number. edit: my answers for posts bellow I used countries with nation wide riots in recent internet age. US is not Norway! America is full of radicals and happy trigger rednecks. If anything France has special anti riot units, trained to use non lethal force. US has militarized police, SWAT teams and national guards. If you expect police to disperse crowd with zero violence, while bombarded with bricks and molotov coctails, you are out of your mind.
- TeaDrunk 6y ago
  Yeah that’s all police brutality. I’m glad that in America our law enforcement hasn’t dove to the level of shutting off our internet, but they’ve definitely used water canons, rubber bullets, and tear gas on peaceful citizens executing their constitutional rights. I’m glad that we as a people find that even our relatively low recorded cases internationally of over 700 filmed videos of police brutality nationwide within the span of 3 weeks is totally and utterly unacceptable to such a peaceful country as ours. I hope we can further reduce this number over time!
- Judgmentality 6y ago
  You're cherry-picking examples of how it's worse and ignoring examples of how it's better. Why not compare to Norway, Canada, or New Zealand? Also it's not like the same regulatory body came up with these numbers and said "this is an objective metric on the quantity of police brutality in these countries!" You just feel like 700 is low and other countries are worse, when there could be many more examples we don't know about in all of the countries!

throw7373 6y ago

Ok, look how France or Greece deals with riots. Water canoons, tear gas, rubber bullets, internet shutdown, checkpoints on every city block... 700 cases is very low number. edit: my answers for posts bellow I used countries with nation wide riots in recent internet age. US is not Norway! America is full of radicals and happy trigger rednecks. If anything France has special anti riot units, trained to use non lethal force. US has militarized police, SWAT teams and national guards. If you expect police to disperse crowd with zero violence, while bombarded with bricks and molotov coctails, you are out of your mind.

TeaDrunk 6y ago
Yeah that’s all police brutality. I’m glad that in America our law enforcement hasn’t dove to the level of shutting off our internet, but they’ve definitely used water canons, rubber bullets, and tear gas on peaceful citizens executing their constitutional rights. I’m glad that we as a people find that even our relatively low recorded cases internationally of over 700 filmed videos of police brutality nationwide within the span of 3 weeks is totally and utterly unacceptable to such a peaceful country as ours. I hope we can further reduce this number over time!
Judgmentality 6y ago
You're cherry-picking examples of how it's worse and ignoring examples of how it's better. Why not compare to Norway, Canada, or New Zealand? Also it's not like the same regulatory body came up with these numbers and said "this is an objective metric on the quantity of police brutality in these countries!" You just feel like 700 is low and other countries are worse, when there could be many more examples we don't know about in all of the countries!