SeparateAddress9070

SeparateAddress9070 t1_jcwc243 wrote

......state violence does not just mean use of force. State violence can be anything from civil forfeiture, to arresting someone for a minor crime and leaving their belongings on the side of the road, to harrassing someone with police presence.

State violence is putting thousands of dollars of fines on people for misdemeanors that they can't afford to pay, and then taking their shit in retaliation. State violence is *being present as a cop with a gun in a black community.*

state violence is the anxiety that an encounter with the police gives a young minority male.

8 million cannabis arrests in the last 10 years is state violence.

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SeparateAddress9070 t1_jcwbg8w wrote

Where did I say anything about police shootings in that statement? Murdering innocent people regularly isn't the only disgusting thing that police are known for in the United States. Disproportionate arrests of minorities for minor crimes, disproportionate use of force, sexism within the force...

ACAB isn't just something people say to be edgy. All cops are fucking scum.

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SeparateAddress9070 t1_jcvylj7 wrote

You do realize that these kind of mental crisis involving potential "weapons" happen all over the world and they *don't* result in cops using their guns, because nearly all first world nations don't have armed and poorly trained conservative scumbags with guns running a mafia they call "police"

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