We live in a nation where if the police bash your head in for protesting police brutality, half the commenters will talk about how you deserved it.
The police didn't get like this all by themselves. There's a huge chunk of America that actively *wants* to live in a police state.
The police didn't get like this all by themselves. There's a huge chunk of America that actively *wants* to live in a police state.
That's a fencing response, the man suffered a traumatic brain injury.
And millions of Americans are like, well yeah obvi if you protest the police and don't obey every command they give you it'd be really unfair to the police if they faced consequences for maybe killing you.
And millions of Americans are like, well yeah obvi if you protest the police and don't obey every command they give you it'd be really unfair to the police if they faced consequences for maybe killing you.
Americans have been conditioned to think that we survive encounters with the police with their permission. And that, in any encounter with them where they feel nervous, they are to be forgiven for killing us if we weren't convincing enough in our performance of obsequiousness.
