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“Just Comply and Everything Will Be Fine”
The other day I saw a video of a small black child playing in the front yard. As soon as he saw a cop car he hid behind a vehicle.
A conservative American was quick to mock the whole thing. Claim the child only did that because his parents where cop haters that had told him to hide from the cops, and that everything would be fine if black parents just told their kids to not act out, behave properly and comply with the police.
I have seen this sentiment repeated by American conservatives ad nauseam, after the protests from the killing of George Floyd 2020.
When you present statistics showing that American police are more brutal than that of comparable countries by e.g. looking at the number of people US police officers shoot then then conservatives make excuses such as:
American Conservative: “their criminals have learned to comply when the police give them an order! That is why police in other countries don’t kill criminals!”
This is of course absolute nonsense. It is in fact the complete opposite. Americans stopped by the police are generally far more cautious as they know American police is dangerous.
In fact if you compare police encounters in various countries with encounters with US police you can see that police in other countries tolerate…
