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American culture seems to have nothing left in it besides the layers of violence.
Important to note that it's typically violence against people who can't really push back without risking getting killed.
It's time to make bullies afraid again, but I don't know how without starting a total escalation.
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Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you are protesting America.
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Can't believe a nation founded on slavery and baptized in blood would come to this.
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Nothing left? Brother it had and has nothing else.
It was started on the principles of "I moved here and now I own the land because god told me so, now stand still while I genocide your entire nationality"
Moved to "I own you because someone brought you here on a boat and I need someone to work the fields."
Moved to "You may have civil rights but we make all the drugs and write the laws"
Moved to "Be free and happy, go do acid and don't look too closely at the vague yet menacing government agents wiretapping your homes, they are here for your safety"
Moved to "Serial killers are everywhere (don't look too closely at them, either. Dont want you seeing their badges)"
Moved to "We need agents everywhere watching everything, and Guantanamos in multiple locations because terrurists."
Its a long line of bloody murder stretching all the way back to colonialism (and beyond!)
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What the fuck is this
It's called America, the land of guns and idiots.
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They shouldn't have shock gloves in the first place.
In fact, I will go so far to say that police should be unarmed by default. They can carry a baton, but a remote operator has to give the okay to unlock the baton for extension. A squad car can have a shotgun with rubber slugs, but the trunk also has to be remotely unlocked. Police should also receive permission from an operator for turning off their camera.
Bluntly, the police cannot be trusted with power.
Public site, 100% uptime, every weapons pull listed in real time. They put those gloves on, it's noted, they pull the baton out, it's listed. They draw their guns it's listed. Transparency would be a good start. Body camera footage should also be available to the people in the videos automatically in identification.
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It's such a perfect dystopian weapon. Like you can imagine someone being scared out of their mind of being touched by a cop because of this, which is then "resisting" and gives them card blanche to brutalize them.
Electricity is truly a weapon of state terror. Not only the pain, but you completely lose control of your body in an (bonus points) undignified manner. And while it's so intensely affecting it's usually not lethal, nor will it leave obvious marks.
It's the perfect weapon of casual torture for power tripping bastards.
The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves
I wonder if spelling it out really did make people overlook the fact we're talking about ICE here
No. It's just the AP style to not say an acronym without ever saying what it means
Which is hilarious because you violated AP style by not first saying Associated Press.
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Officers were expected to give warning before using the gloves and then touch the person for up to 15 seconds while the electric shock was delivered, the statement said.
According to the manual, these things (the Gen 5 gloves) are discharging 324–362V at 0.7–1.2A and the Gen 4s 210–380V at 0.9–1.5A.
That's around half a kW for you folks keeping track at home. Better hope little Timmy's heatlh class is teaching him what a regular sinus rhythm is.
I hope any officer who uses that on a child gets a prostate exam with a G.L.O.V.E. equipped.
Sorry gen 5? There are five generations of these things and we're just hearing about it now?
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G.L.O.V.E. sounds like something Vault-Tec would make and sell
Why are there police in American schools? That's very weird.
It’s so there’s someone there to easily arrest black kids for doing normal kid stuff.
Having police in schools stops school shooters... /s if it isn't fucking obvious
It's to increase the efficiency of the school to prison pipeline.
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Can't even say "enough internet for today" because I just opened Lemmy and saw this.
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...stop?
Why the fuck did they ever start?
This is why phones are banned In schools. Otherwise we'd have video of cops tasing studnrts with a weapon straight out of a Ratchet and Clank game
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Why does this country keep worshipping a cruel and unnecessarily violent police force in every corner of its society? You'd think enough regular folks have had a bad enough experience to want to reign it in over time.
have you seen the copanganda, military worship that goes on media/films thats how they reinforce that control.
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For the self proclaimed Land of the Free, the US has always had this dark authoritarian streak, but I'm frankly aghast at the dystopian death spiral unravelling before my eyes. You could see it coming for a long time, but it still feels sudden.
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