• @Agent641@lemmy.world
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    Watched this live all day at work. So much of this shit went on. The whole thing with CHP trapped under the overpasses was set up to be a massacre, but the protestors didn’t kill them.

    No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.

    • They’re hoping for bloodshed on the side of police or military, it’s their ticket to ride. They can do whatever they want once they establish the civilian populace as a threat to military personnel. These guys are little more than sacrificial pawns as far as the administration is concerned, they’re hoping that at least one of them meets a violent enough end so they can justify martial law and start unloading on every crowd of protesters.

    • taco
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      No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.

      Or they know the violent threat they’re using as justification is total fiction.

      • jawa22
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        It seems to me like they are attempting to get protestors to escalate. After a martyr, the mental gymnastics and justifications will spiral with a blinding speed.

        • taco
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          421 days ago

          Not even escalate, just retaliate at the same level. The first part of the video isn’t what will get played on or matter to the viewers of fox news.

  • Not surprising at all, there’s been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don’t just become monsters overnight. They’ve been trained over the years to behave this way.

  • @HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    Why the fuck do the police still use horses?

    Are there still bandits in the wild west robbing steam trains?

  • Stamets
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    1122 days ago

    The United States is no different than Russia. If anything, y’all are worse.

    • @Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml
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      ??? No different than Russia? HAVE YOU READ THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.? THERE ISN’T EVEN A SIDE OF COMPARISON RUSSIA LOOKS LIKE THE LAND OF PEACE COMPARED TO THE U.S.

      I suggest you read “Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire”

          • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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            Well you see they shot some monarchists and that’s equivalent to murdering tens of millions of brown people somehow.

          • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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            [Video] LA cops force their horses to run over protester

            If anything, it’s US cops learning from the cossacks, whom tsar always send against people when police was not enough. Running over unarmed people with horses was their favourite tactics.

          • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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            From 1917to 1922 between 7-12 million Russians, mostly civilians, were killed. This includes hundreds of thousands of Jews killed in pogroms (genocidal race riots). The Red Terror involved Bolsheviks conducting executions to wipeout political dissent and any threats to their power. The White Terror involved a collection of conservatives, monarchists, and proto-fascists executing communists and genociding Jews. This doesn’t count people who died in forced labor camps, which by some accounts saw a 10-20% fatality rate per month. There were mass rapes and looting wherever the several armies went. It’s been described to be as close to Hell on Earth as it gets. Between WWI and the Russian Civil War, the total population fell from around 170 million to 134 million.

        • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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          In the mind of the USAian liberal, this is also because of Russia. Things used to be great, but now they’re bad because the foreigners are controlling the president.

          • In the minds of anyone with a passing understanding of Russian foreign policy can absolutely see they have their hooks in Trump and you would have to have a significant deficit in logical thinking skills to believe otherwise. That being said that only accounts for some of the war, violence, and agitation the USA is involved in.

      • @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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        And then run over with treads. And then reversed. And then run over again. And then hosed the remains into a nearby sewer.

    • Dessalines
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      If we take most reliable estimates of the casualties than happened in the june 4th incident, ~200, then US cops kill more than that in 2 months.

      Or if you want a single internal incident, during the Waco siege the US burned alive ~90 people, many women and children included.

      • @Grapho@lemmy.ml
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        And US cops don’t wait for protestors to burn a bunch of policemen and try to kill bystanders. But then again, the most prominent organizers ain’t CIA so why would they ever do that.

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        The only good cops are horses and dog.

        EDIT: Guys, I know police dogs attack people. They are trained to do so from birth. I don’t blame the dogs.

        • @Grapho@lemmy.ml
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          Idk. Police dogs are brutal. They’re regularly sicced onto black and Latino people to maul em and if they try to defend themselves they’re charged with assaulting an officer.

          Dogs should at most be used to smell for bombs. The fact that they trust their owners so much that they’d be violent against whomever is precisely why the cops shouldn’t be allowed to have them, it’s animal abuse but even more importantly, it’s a huge vector for police brutality.

        • @BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
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          The dogs are brain washed to attack.

          A regular person training this viciousness into a dog would be called out, if not arrested (depending on the animal cruelty laws).