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There is expressly no racism involved in this assault. This is all about power dynamics. This is specifically about aggressive people with no meaningful training on how to control and contain their frustration, anger, and rage, while at the same time believing that they have the *authority* to demand compliance without resistance; and their only response to that situation is brute force. When they began beating Tyre Nichols, he posed no potential threat to the general population. Had the cops had control of themselves, they could have spent literal hours subduing him, if need be. But they were not meaningfully trained in de-escalation. They were trained to create submission and, effectively escalation. That is not the proper relationship between law enforcement and the citizenry (without getting into the topic of police vs. sheriffs).
If you cannot control your emotions, and cannot recognize that when a SUSPECT is not personally offending you as an individual, you have no business being a cop. Period. Regardless of what a cop sees, his role is not to exact justice, it is only to bring SUSPECTS to face justice. Thus, any occasion of police violence is definitively a violation of individual rights.
Our municipal governments are hiring the wrong people and giving them abhorrently inadequate training, and they are turning them loose on the citizenry, and this is the result.
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