So I watched a video yesterday online about a guy riding a horse in a desert-like area and the cop is chasing after him. Eventually he gets off the horse, gets on the ground, lies flat on his face, and puts his hands on his head. He is in a completely vulnerable position. Then the cop, and several other cops who join soon after, start kicking him repeatedly in the head, groin and other areas. Oh, this was after tasering him several times.
This is just one of dozens or hundreds of examples of police brutality that happen daily in the States. Absolutely unnecessary brutality. I then found a stat which said American cops killed more people in one month than British cops killed in the entire century so far! In fact, it was more than double. The actual stat was British cops killed around 50 people in the past 15 years, while American cops killed 111 in one month! In Canada, the number of people killed by cops is around 11 per year, which apparently is around 74 times less than the US per capita.
It’s important to keep all of this in mind when people are cheerleaders for police and the militarization of them!
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