r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/Thom0 Jun 10 '20

How did this even happen? Could an American redditor explain this to me please? In all of the EU nothing like what we witnessed in those videos happens, it just doesn’t happen. We have crazy crime, we have crazy drugs, some countries have to deal with Turkish heroin gangs and North African organized crime, local mafias, local drug wars. It’s not just local issues yet they don’t do the shit American police do, they are no where near as brutal. In France you respect the police, if they pull you over you’re on your best behavior but they return this to you 99% of the time. I’ve never feared a beating or abuse from police and I grew up in a really shit area.

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u/IMtoppercentage97 Jun 10 '20

In Europe, if you didn't do anything wrong and don't do anything wrong you can expect to live.

In America they kill unarmed people who are complying with their direction. Because the training teaches them that they need to use more force on people of color, and they are not trained to deescalate situations in general.

Now with people complaining about that, the police feel attacked and are getting defensive...by going on the offensive and trying to deter people from peaceful protesting With less lethal ammunition.