A very chilling thought.....

[Are_grits_groceries]

In the last few years we have seen many videos of police abusing people.

How many cases have been missed in the last decades and that we are missing now?

[underahedgerow]

1. The violence isn't new. The cameras are.

Just sayin'.

[PennyK]

2. Well, yeah.

I think that is the unspoken part of what's on people's minds as they protest.
"You see what it's been like, all these years? We knew, but you wouldn't believe us."

[mainstreetonce]

3. So true

The people chanting BLM know stories that go far beyond what we have seen on camera. They were raised by people who experienced so much more.

I am white and old and and support the police, and I get the reason for BLM anger.

[Stellar]

6. Let's not forget all the guys that were beaten to a pulp...

that are in jail now for some stuff they didn't do just to fill up the prisons.

[marble falls]

4. What happens if those chickens come home to roost? We had better seriously deal with racism and a...

police system out of control.

[randr]

5. We are just now discovering that this type of police action re: POC

is the norm.

[GreenEyedLefty]

7. Police brutality has been a staple of rap and hip hop lyrics for decades.

Not just brutality... entrapment, killing and torture, seizing money and drugs for their own use and profit, etc.

I mean, NWA didn't say "fuck the police" just because.

[oberliner]

8. "I'm a sniper with a hell of a scope. Taking out a cop or two, they can't cope"

"And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath of cops, dying in L.A."

That's the NWA song you mean, right?

[GreenEyedLefty]

9. Yes and it was released in 1988

It's one thing to parse out that particular lyric, and another to read in the context of the entire song.

[oberliner]

10. Posting the whole song would most likely result in an alert and a hide

Given the liberal use of the n-word and various homophobic terms.