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Originally Posted by markksman
...Because Chauvin viewed the victim as less than human, it was easy to treat him with total disregard to the circumstance and consequence. This is the core of the problem...
Yup that is everything.
When you see the police order a black mother with her children to the ground and bind them and leave them laying on hot pavement that is because they do not relate to them as equal humans.
As outraged as the race excuses will bet (and demand i prove it would not happen) that would NEVER happen to suburban Sally, a middle aged white mother, and her white kids.
And it should not. The outrage would be justified.
It is a complete failure in police training when cops who outnumber a mother and her kids, feel they cannot control the situation or at risk of the mother and kids, whom they could (and should) have already checked for weapons before handcuffing them and putting them on the ground, are suddenly going to get violent and overwhelm the cops and thus they need to take this precaution.
This comes from the dehumanization, and fear, too many cops carry around.