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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Falling3 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:26PM (#25676929)
> Or put another way, because they theorise that white police are involved in an enormous, coast-to-coast conspiracy against black people

That is a blatant straw-man. The U.S. has a violent, racist history - particularly it's police force. There is no reason a continuation of violence and racism would require a conspiracy.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by thu2111 on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:00AM (#25682907)
There are some good data analyses showing that the US police isn't racist. The belief that it is gets repeated so much, and journalists are so loathe to investigate it, that the claims come to define reality. But it's not actually true.
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