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Johnny2X2X

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15. Just know that before cameras this happened way more often
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 08:40 AM
Jul 2021

Before cameras cops did this stuff all the time without it ever being in a report. They're only being held accountable because they're on camera, without this recording this goes nowhere and the officers all just deny it happened.

I think that's part of the rage built up, people have been being brutalized by the police for generations without any accountability. over the last 100 years there are thousands of arrestees who ended up dead in police custody and no one know what happened. There are 10s or 100s of thousands of people who ended up beaten and never got justice for it.

The police have been treating people this way for as long as US police departments have existed, it's engrained in their culture. Only now are we finally being able to hold some of them accountable.

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