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Nitram

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1. It will take a number of cases like this to persuade the majority of Americans that our police

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 13, 2018, 10:14 AM

Feb 2018

forces are out of control and need to be reigned in. They need extensive training in civil rights, defusing potentially violent situation without the use of force, and what is required of a professional officer of the peace. The problem is that most white Americans live in white neighborhoods where the police are always on their best behavior.

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