Hong Kong shocked by violent police arrest of 12-year-old girl

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In the meantime, in Salt Lake City, a 13 years old kid who committed the crime of being autistic, was shot multiple times by the police. Still alive, luckily.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-shoot-autistic-1...

It's a worldwide phenomenon: cops are trained to execute orders from above without thinking twice or questioning if those orders might be wrong. They dehumanize common people by regarding them as targets rather than persons. Every day someone is being harassed/bullied/robbed/beaten/killed by them, and they usually get away with minimal consequences because of their immunity. I don't see any reasons to believe things are going to change, unless of course people stops protesting and finally accept to live in dictatorial police states worldwide. Defending freedom will become a crime everywhere; the day one has to choose between doing nothing as a slave or being murdered for defending his/hers rights is about to come.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

- Hanlon's Razor

I think it's telling about our society, that the only public support that was available to the mother of this 13 year old kid was the police. There were no first responders for a mental health crisis. We have pawned off our mental health treatment to our police and prisons and they don't have the tools or training to deal with stuff like this.

Maybe someday we'll have something a little better. Sweden seems to be trying to get a handle on this.

https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/worlds-first-menta....

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