Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.

  • @pearsaltchocolatebar
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    343 months ago

    It’s always been like this, friend. We just have better optics on it now.

    • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      It has, but exposing enough people to injustice like this as much as possible as loudly as possible is how to peacefully change entrenched systems.

      • @pearsaltchocolatebar
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        13 months ago

        No doubt, I’m all for the increased optics. But, police abuse of power has likely dropped a bit since everyone has a video camera in their pocket, but due to the nature of the statistics we’ll never know for sure one way or another.

        I was mostly arguing against the notion that things have gotten worse when the truth is that it’s just more visible. Same goes for stupid people and crazies.