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kleinbl00  ·  2124 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police release body cam video of Willie McCoy killing, showing him asleep in car

It's not getting better nearly fast enough

But it is getting better.

I wonder if guns are something Americans are going to "age out of" like TV and cigarettes. I mean, at some point the law enforcement profiling will have to catch up with the fact that it's the white dudes who are most likely to have contraband in their car, guns in the pants and an aggrieved sense of entitlement looking for an outlet.





dublinben  ·  2122 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not going to happen. Even setting aside the thoroughly racist origins of modern American policing , law enforcement is effectively a right-wing gang. The FBI is too busy persecuting nonviolent environmental activists, Black Lives Matter, and other left-wing groups to recognize the growing threat of right-wing extremism in their ranks and in the country at large.

user-inactivated  ·  2124 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I mean, at some point the law enforcement profiling will have to catch up with the fact that it's the white dudes who are most likely to have contraband in their car, guns in the pants and an aggrieved sense of entitlement looking for an outlet.

Not as long as the GOP can throw a fit and shut them up every time Homeland Security tries to bring it up.

kleinbl00  ·  2124 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I want you to be wrong so hard

Maybe we can age out of the GOP, too.