Comment on Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 8 months ago
This is horrific. There’s no excuse for those cops ‘not knowing’ when they can retain someone and when they are allowed to walk on…that’s literally their job. So sad.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Disguised “proactive” stop and search shit is secret police stuff.
This is an entirely predictable outcome of the policy. It is social murder.
If you heard about this happening in North Korea, China, Russia etc you would go “well duh, this is why authoritarian policing is unacceptable”. It is intolerable that we permit this, he was a child and he was gunned down with all the cruelty of a cartel hit squad running home for safety.
Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
America and by extension other parts of the world are too busy with culture war shit to notice the real war going on.
And people wonder why anyone with half a brain keeps say the world is sliding into a Conservative shitehole.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Idk what the usa has to do with this. We’ve had an authoritarian policing style since our days as a prison colony.
It got worse faster since 2001 and the islamophobic moral panic around terrorism. Even our Parliament house, designed to have a green on top so pollies would remember they are below the people, is fenced off now with armed coppas.
Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
The brain rot comes from there and spreads like wildfire 😑