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The reaction to George Floyd in UK was quite strange, with "don't shoot" protests and "defund the police", when the UK police is not even armed and gets paid li
by ClumsyPilot 2y ago
The reaction to George Floyd in UK was quite strange, with "don't shoot" protests and "defund the police", when the UK police is not even armed and gets paid like half of their American counterparts.
- some_random 2y agoThat's not a bad one, although issues of police brutality and overfunding definitely aren't unique to the US
- mensetmanusman 2y agoPolice regularly having tanks and other epic equipment from war is definitely unique to democracies.
- some_random 2y agoThat's true, autocracies usually just deploy the military domestically!