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Susan Harley's avatar

Powerful writing and thanks for the link to Chris Hedges Sermon, incredible it made me cry. My threadbare comfort is that more are waking up to the violence and desperation of the dying empire . Then we will rise ❤️‍🩹

Ohio Barbarian's avatar

The DENVER Police Chief refused to crack heads? Wow. Things have changed since I lived there. It used to be that if you wanted to watch police brutality on Cops you always watched the ones in Denver because they were bound to beat the shit out of somebody.

Anyway, this reminds me of when I learned our police were using Israeli training manuals. It was 1989 or 90, and I had volunteered for the Shore Patrol because of some stupid privilege or the other. Our training was based on old-school police manuals, like they used in, oh, Adam-12 or something. We were told that if we EVER pulled a gun, much less fired it, we had better be in IMMEDIATE danger of DEATH or else those senior chiefs would make our lives a living hell--we weren't going to act like those Israeli bastards to OUR citizens!

Actually, I edited their words to be a lot less colorful than they were. I learned how to use a nightstick. It's amazing how easy it is to subdue someone without doing much harm at all with a nightstick, even if they have a knife. We didn't know what body armor was.

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