A video of Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car during a traffic stop has caused national outrage, with civil rights lawyers accusing authorities of fabricating their arrest report.
that… sounds right. I guess 30 years ago I wouldn’t have expected to be assaulted by the cops, and now I 100% do. And everyone else in the world sees the US as a very dangerous place to visit now too. Used to be different, but maybe it is just perception of what was always there.
It’s crazy because I grew up “knowing that’s just how things were”. I’m brown and my name has way too many vowels, so I knew to keep my head down when the police might be involved. Then I learned that’s not the norm everywhere in the world and my mind was blown.
30 years ago it would have happened more frequently and simply wouldn’t have been reported on. The BIPOC community has known for generations that cops are oppressors who use violence as their primary form of communication. The advent of phone cameras has simply allowed it to be recorded and broadcast often enough to enter white peoples’ zeitgeist.
This is nothing new, and 30 years ago nothing would have been done about it. Hell, 60-70 years ago, the cops would have been joined by an angry mob, and the dude would have been lynched just because the crowd wanted some entertainment. The 1950s and ‘60s weren’t that long ago. Trump’s entire generation was born and raised when segregation was still the norm, and Jim Crowism was expected.
Cops casually assaulting people for no real reason has become the norm. 30 years ago that would have been a crime.
30 years ago…? 30 years ago they wouldn’t have been on camera doing it, you’d just never know it happened.
that… sounds right. I guess 30 years ago I wouldn’t have expected to be assaulted by the cops, and now I 100% do. And everyone else in the world sees the US as a very dangerous place to visit now too. Used to be different, but maybe it is just perception of what was always there.
It’s crazy because I grew up “knowing that’s just how things were”. I’m brown and my name has way too many vowels, so I knew to keep my head down when the police might be involved. Then I learned that’s not the norm everywhere in the world and my mind was blown.
Boy do I have some
goodterrible news for you…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
It’s getting better but it’s still horrible, we need to reform policing as a whole in this country (USA).
30 years ago it would have happened more frequently and simply wouldn’t have been reported on. The BIPOC community has known for generations that cops are oppressors who use violence as their primary form of communication. The advent of phone cameras has simply allowed it to be recorded and broadcast often enough to enter white peoples’ zeitgeist.
This is nothing new, and 30 years ago nothing would have been done about it. Hell, 60-70 years ago, the cops would have been joined by an angry mob, and the dude would have been lynched just because the crowd wanted some entertainment. The 1950s and ‘60s weren’t that long ago. Trump’s entire generation was born and raised when segregation was still the norm, and Jim Crowism was expected.
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