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Hydra

(14,459 posts)
7. It's a power issue
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 02:16 AM
Oct 2015

They(the police and gov't) feel free to target vulnerable people, assuming(mostly correctly) that nothing will come if it.

The police in my area are better than most, but I've still heard stories of blatant profiling...and I'd never feel safe if they ever had an issue with me. I can't afford a decent lawyer, so I feel like I'm in the same boat with the PoCs who are being abused.

It's long past the time that we rolled this police brutality stuff back, but it's always been a political football, not a mass ground movement. Hopefully that is changing.

We're all in this together.

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