Comment on I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality?

rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• blargerer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a Canadian, I do see reports of police violence in Canada, and I imagine I'm largely seeing the same stuff you are, so you've also likely seen some. With that said, police violence per interaction is a pretty low % everywhere (to be clear, it should be 0), but its like 10x higher in the US than other comparable countries, and the US has a huge population. Because of a combination of those factors I wouldn't be shocked if like 90-95% of police violence happening in English speaking countries is happening in the US.

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  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Police violence in Canada is, like, a cop not saying please?

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    • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Canada has a dark side bro.

      The Geneva conventions are just a reproduction of Canada’s WW1 to-do list…

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    • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pushing their way to the front of the line to get the last jelly donut

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    • blargerer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Here is a very recent example.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7b62b4dbqw

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