ColinEssex
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Simple question. Do Americans here (and generally) trust the police?
Today is the anniversary of the death of Mr Floyd. We know that Americans pretend to be shocked and disgusted etc, yet in 2020 just over a thousand people were killed by the USA police, why single out just one?
We see police violence on TV news, in the TV programmes from USA. I read the other day of a middle aged woman went through a red light, she was stopped by the police at gunpoint, ordered out of the car and told to spread eagle on the ground with two officers pointing guns at her. Apparently, they suspected she had a gun in the glove box (she didn't). Is this normal?
We know some parents here encouraged their daughters to go to Washington on 6th Jan to participate in the smashing up of congress. Obviously it's denied. But it shows how bad parenting can encourage younger people to flout the law.
Why is it necessary for police in the USA to become trigger happy legal killers?
Col
Today is the anniversary of the death of Mr Floyd. We know that Americans pretend to be shocked and disgusted etc, yet in 2020 just over a thousand people were killed by the USA police, why single out just one?
We see police violence on TV news, in the TV programmes from USA. I read the other day of a middle aged woman went through a red light, she was stopped by the police at gunpoint, ordered out of the car and told to spread eagle on the ground with two officers pointing guns at her. Apparently, they suspected she had a gun in the glove box (she didn't). Is this normal?
We know some parents here encouraged their daughters to go to Washington on 6th Jan to participate in the smashing up of congress. Obviously it's denied. But it shows how bad parenting can encourage younger people to flout the law.
Why is it necessary for police in the USA to become trigger happy legal killers?
Col