The three words "I Can't Breathe" refer to what some police brutality victims, like George Floyd, Eric Garner and Manuel Ellis, said before their untimely deaths at the hands of law enforcement.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You are getting nothing but angry pushback, so I am here to let you know that at least one lemmite agrees with you.

    I don't know if ACAB is a disinformation campaign by Russia and China, but I do know they have been stoking the division here in many ways on social media, so I feel you are not "fringe/crazy" for wondering if it is true.

    I know a few police and fire responders, who are Latino and are stand up individuals. They are not racist.

    We must strive to differentiate the fiends from the people who only want to do the right thing and resist the easy trap of generalization.

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      1 year ago

      it's absolutely propaganda. smoothbrains love to use generalizations because the truth that there's a lot of good, trustworthy, upstanding police officers and only a few bad ones - but apparently that is a difficult concept to grasp.