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In reply to the discussion: Do not trust the police. Ever. The police force has become something evil in its purpose... [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)You are partially right, but IMO your conclusion is exactly what the One Percent seek.
The One Percent is deliberately creating this adversarial relationship between police and the people.
They are creating it through grants and training programs to militarize police, make escalation and violence routine policy, and teach them to see the public as the enemy.
And they are creating it through incessant Republican and Third Way propaganda that trains us to view the monstrous transformation of police as the result of their inherent evil rather than the result of deliberate government policy and agenda.
A police force that recognizes that they are citizens, too, just as exploited and impoverished by the corporate looting of this nation as the rest of us, is very dangerous to the One Percent. What they need to understand is that their training is corrupt, their militarization is corrupt, and that the very system they are now being trained to work within violates every aspect of what it should mean to be a police officer: to protect and serve.
The One Percent is doing this. We need to get police to understand what is being done to them.
Photo Of Young Boy Hugging Officer At Ferguson Rally Goes Viral And Becomes 'Icon Of Hope'
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