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Are you too young to remember the Rodney King protests? They literally had to call in the Marines and the Army to quell them. That was in 1991, and a result of police brutality against an unarmed Black man.
Edit: Wanted to add that police in general came from slave patrols. It was a racist institution designed to instill terror into people of color from the very beginning. It was never about "serving and protecting."
I was a kid back then, but even i had no idea of the background leading to the riots. Like how the group that beat King were part of a gang that was on a mission to beat black men, or the unrelated (except by racism) widely publicized trial verdicts where multiple white citizens were found not guilty or given light sentences for killing black kids (I've forgotten a lot of the details of the documentary, but ill never forget the shocked faces of the parents of a kid shot by a convenience store clerk after her community service verdict). The righteous anger had been boiling over all year, and King was just the final straw.
And nothing has changed for the better in all this time
Yes, I was a baby in 1991. I don't have data, but I've heard anecdotes from former police officers that police training has changed significantly since the 80s.
It's definitely become much more militarized.
I don't disagree with that, but it would be false to say that police brutality directed at people of color is a new thing. That's always been there.
I never said police violence directed at people of color was a new thing.
My point, which I think wasn't very clear bcz I worded it poorly is that police are trained to draw their guns immediately today and shoot to kill. That didn't used to be the case.
That, I do agree with. It's been militarized in the last 20-30 years for sure.
The militarization accelerated due to events where the police took an ass whoopin like the North Hollywood bank robbery.
Maybe don't believe police officer anecdotes?