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Re:How much do we need the police? by likeclockwork on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:31PM (#23419382)
> Especially since many police officers are PoC themselves, and apparently they kill more PoC than white police officers.

Because they're police officers. It is and always has been the mandate of US police forces to violently repress non-whites, particularly Black people. The skin color of the cop doesn't change the function. Racism is not 'a white person did something mean to a non-white person'.

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Re:How much do we need the police? by cheesecracker on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:25PM (#23420001)
I'd like to see the proof of that. Maybe they are just confronted with armed, trigger happy criminals every day and therefore have to answer with guns, too.

And what are you saying, without white people, there would be no need for police? PoC would just get by, no crime whatsoever? That seems unlikely to me.

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