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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by torb-xyz on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:01AM (#23524961)
I know it's tempting to do the whole ”oh that's a problem over in terrible USA” (a very common european way of thinking) but I'd be careful about it.

Granted I think european police is less violent than US (a low bar), but to say that we don't have a problem with this at all is pretty naive. Just look at how french or swedish police have responded to black lives matters protests for example.

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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by hansbo on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:36AM (#23525512)
What are you referring to? I live in Sweden, and have not seen news regarding police brutality during the BLM protests.
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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by pera on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:59AM (#23528809)
I believe Sweden requires a bachelors degree and 2.5 years of training to become a cop. In the US it's just a high school diploma and 4 to 6 months of training depending the state.
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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by pnako on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:59AM (#23526027)
Right now the French police is protesting against their own boss (minister of the interior, Castaner) because he went with the BLM narrative and basically called them racist.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53022073

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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by hef19898 on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:04AM (#23527409)
Back during Sarkozy'sreign as President,there were riotscaused by the death of a coupe of youth being persued by police. So yeah, they have a problem in France. One that should be addressed.
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