US police increasingly citing subjects' "noncompliance" as justification for initiating violent force http://alj.am/Y9zkjK
@bdhaupt No, but there are definitely pathologies unique to US police -- also huge variation among thousands of US departments, obviously
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@mtracey of course, "everyone else has these problems too!" doesnt make it any more excusable -
@bdhaupt I don't think it's true that "everyone else" has these problems though -- Canada doesn't, Germany doesn't, South Korea doesn't - 1 more reply
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@mtracey taksim, marikana, ferguson, etc have similar police playbooks. big difference is that in the us class divides correlate more w raceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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