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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The problem with this line of thought is you have no way of knowing who is a bad guy and who is just a native/black/Irish/ kid but it is human nature to take short cuts so all black/native/irish kids tend to become the bad guys which leads to Starlight rides, beating deaths and the Birmingham 8.
The police seem to exist in a weird world where they spend most of their time dealing with the most vulnerable of our society without having any insight or knowledge about them what so ever (and I do believe this is on some level a purposeful choice towards ignorance to make the job morally or emotionally easier), I can remember trying to explain to an anti prostitution task force that were sent to the jail I worked out of why they were having no luck getting co operation from the girls when they wanted to 'bust their scumbag pimps' as the cops put it, they had no idea that most of the girls 'pimps' really were their boyfriends, that the girls cared for them and visa versa, that the guys did some dealing and B&E's, the girls worked the stroll, they pooled their money and survived that way.
The anti prostitution task force seemed to have no clue about the actual lives of prostitutes, they seemed to see everything in an utterly black and white manner, they desperately needed a bad guy to hunt down, the idea that everyone involved (except maybe the regular citizen who bought the girls) was also a victim seemed impossible for them to comprehend
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Just an awful video in Memphis. I can't imagine what Tyre Nichols was thinking while getting beat to death. I would have ran away too to get away from that.
Do Memphis police not have any training? It looked like a pack of wild dogs with literally zero attempt to pull back on the reigns and gain some perspective on what exactly they were dealing with. Why didn't just one of them have the human decency to make the others stop.
However I do find the bolded part above interesting. Isn't that what many think about cops. Like aren't many in this thread doing the exact same thing? Making straight lines to judgement based on some bad behavior or a silly patch?
Just some food for thought anyway.