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In reply to the discussion: Twenty-Three People Killed by American Police in the Span of One Week [View all]tblue37
(64,982 posts)lesser degree, this situation is not really new. The only really new aspects to the situation are (1) the fact that cops are now brutalizing and killing the kinds of people they used to leave alone (middle-class whites, even if they are women, children, old people, or the handicapped), and (2) almost everyone has a readily available video camera now--and most people are willing to use their cameras to catch the police in action when they are abusing or killing people.
The accumulation of so much video evidence makes it harder for whites to keep claiming that cops are not abusing and murdering black citizens, and it also forces white people (except for those so intransigent or so blinded by race hatred that they cannot even accept the evidence of their own eyes) to realize that they are not as safe from such abuse as they have always believed themselves to be.