• Billegh@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    They’re not US police. That’s probably why the video didn’t end in everyone getting shot.

    • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      UK police can be absolute shits too. Policing as a profession can attract people who absolutely should not have power over others, and the culture within the police can promote pretty fucked up attitudes in ppreviously decent people; it’s qualitatively the same pernicious problems that we see in the US, albeit to a much milder degree.

      General condemnation of the police aside, I’m glad to see how this particular incident was handled.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Actually, shortly after the recording was stopped some vacationing US cops heard an acorn drop nearby and shot 2 cyclists and one UK officer