So are plenty of ordinary citizens. Remember Trump bragging during his campaign about how he was going to bring back torture? He's got no small number of fans on the right who just ate it up.

It's common knowledge that in America that if you wind up in prison you're going to get raped. There are even countless jokes about it. That amounts to torture (just one of the many types of torture you're liable to experience in prison) and most people don't care because they figure if you wind up in prison you deserve whatever you get.

There are plenty of US citizens who are also happy to see police beat, taze, and otherwise torture protestors, suspects, and prisoners... especially if they're minorities.

Racism, hatred, and a gleeful thirst for violence against the targets of that hatred have always been alive and well in America.