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Originally Posted by SackAttack
Fetishizing the police state to the point where "I was afraid for my life" is carte blanche to kill an unarmed citizen creates WAY more fucking division than a civil rights group saying "you know what? Maybe don't travel to a place that has a history of this shit until they get their shit together."
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1. I'm probably a step further than most on the police state thing. I mean the war on drugs is about as racist a program as there is out there. I also can remember a thread where I commented that the Boston ticker tape parade with all the militarized police vechicles may have been heading our country in the wrong direction and was blasted by all but about 2 board members. Then Ferguson happened and all of a sudden people started wondering about when police became militarized. That's the thing I think bad cops need to be dealt with. A lot of the shootings/incidents in the news have no plausible explanation except for misconduct. I just don't think Michael Brown and a few others were the places to make that point and just create more L/R Black/White Rich/Poor division.
2. As for the travel advisory... lol. Pure race baiting and division creating. So a state that has a consistant top 5 most dangerous city in the country consisting of mostly black on black murder suddenly gets the NAACP "watch out" warning when a mentally ill person dies in a rural white county's prison. Bravo NAACP sweep those other 200+ murders a year under the rug they don't fit the narrative!
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