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brer cat

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2. Far too many want exactly the policing we have,

Reply to gwheezie (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 10:44 AM

Dec 2015

and it won't change as long as they do. Reading the comments following articles about police murders of black citizens makes it very clear, disgustingly so: the victims all brought it on themselves, not because they were black ("I'm not a racist, but...&quot because they were "thugs" and their parents didn't raise them "right."

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The Paranoid Style of American Policing (Coates) [View all] Recursion Dec 2015 OP

We get the policing we want. gwheezie Dec 2015 #1

Far too many want exactly the policing we have, brer cat Dec 2015 #2

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