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In your mind, cops really just see a peaceful protest and just decide to start fucking with them? "Oh look at all those peaceful people, let's just start shooting and gassing them"? Really? You really think that nothing led up to it? You haven't seen the hundreds of hours of "peaceful protesters" turning into riots, looting, spending hours throwing rocks, bricks, piss, fireworks, and more at cops that are just doing their job? Are you really that brainwashed? You think there's some giant conspiracy where all of these cops, across the whole country, are just evil people that love hurting people for no reason?

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Yes, that’s 100% correct. There is an overabundance of documented evidence that police all around America are declaring completely peaceful protests riots and responding with force.

Here is a video of the recent Seattle protest from an aerial view. There’s no escaping this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the...

You can find the videos yourself of this happening over many many cities. I'm not going to do that work for someone clearly not trying to understand in good faith.

You say this like it's a conspiracy when there are clear maligned motives for cops to approach these things in this manner, as well as a history of it.

> In your mind, cops really just see a peaceful protest and just decide to start fucking with them?

Sometimes, but not often.

More often, when there is a gross “overreaction”, it's a calculated attempt to suppress the message of the protestors, coordinated by leadership and instigated by various means including feeding false intelligence to the cops on the line that distorts their interpretation of facts.

But in the case of race-related issues it's often much worse than that, and this is apparently the case now. The infiltration of American law enforcement agencies by white supremacists is long-documented, there is, at the moment, an active white supremacist effort to trigger a race war, and the President of the United States is actively using language invoking historical racist government violence, and directly initiating violence against peaceful protestors. This isn't impulsive police violence, or merely violence as instrumental to winning a political debate, this is a (mostly loosely) coordinated campaign of racist violence where the violence and the harms it inflicts is, itself, a goal, and not just a callously accepted cost of some other end.

That is exactly what is happening. Wake up and stop being in denial. There’s a repo with videos that show you exactly this.

Can you explain what the cops [1] were doing to this car and what is their rationale for destroying someone else's property? Was the car resisting arrest?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/gv2ogk/news_ch...

/u/StruggleBus67 -7 points 18 hours ago

>Tinted windows, have to verify not occupied, 200$ insurance claim vs. potential gun in the back of your neck, stop being ignorant

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