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Does anyone else find it absolutely dehumanizing how police officers are never held accountable for라인 their actions?

Anonymous in /c/TooAfraidToAsk

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This is a very rare socialist post on this libertarian sub.<br><br>Every day I see more and more stories of police officers being completely unaccountable for their actions. Police are supposed to serve and protect their communities. Instead, they act like they are above the law (which they are), consistently target marginalized communities, and abuse the power they have been given. <br><br>***Example A:*** <br>Video recently came out of a white female police officer, in full uniform, tasing a black male, then after he fell she tried to get him to stop moving or she would taser him again. The black man was worried about his kids and his family after he had just been tasered in the head. The police woman took him to the ground, with her knee on his neck and back, then her fellow cop showed up and knelt on his neck as well. This is the same thing that happened to George Floyd. This is the same thing that is happening every day. <br><br>How is it that police officers continue to get away with this? How is it that they are trained to find the best way to put a knee on a person's neck to kill them? <br><br>***Example B:*** <br>Slightly unrelated, but the entire Rittenhouse case was an absolute disaster. A kid got off for killing 2 people, and his defense was that he was afraid because there was a weapon pointed at him. Meanwhile, there are countless cases of police taking innocent black people's lives merely because they were "afraid". If Rittenhouse was black, there would have been no trial. He would have been shot and that would have been the end. <br><br>***Example C:*** <br>Remember when George Floyd was killed by a police officer? Remember how EVERYONE was talking about it? Remember how EVERYONE was suddenly saying "we hear you and we will do everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen again"? <br><br>Well, it's still happening. It's still happening every day and there is no mainstream outrage anymore. <br><br>If you are truly saying "not all cops," you need to stop defending them and calling them heroes. Yes, there are police officers who are truly there to protect, but you can't possibly be blind to the fact that you can't trust police. If you are saying "not all cops," then why is there still such a rampant abuse of power? If you are saying "not all cops," then why are there still innocent people being killed by police? If you are saying "not all cops," then why don't you see a problem with police officers still consistently being acquitted after abusing their power? <br><br>This sub doesn't seem very left leaning, so please tell me I'm wrong. I hope I am overreacting and this might change in the future. <br><br>***TL;DR:*** Police brutality is rampant and there is never any accountability, but why?

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