What I mean is that the stupidest thing to come out of this is that most Americans aren't seeing a damn issue with the riots and any collateral damage since they are based off of Floyd's death. Right before this happened you would been lambasted for having the nerve to walk around without a mask. That's all gone now. Even if the deaths spike, it will be ignored.
I'm confused because this is blatant bandwagoning. None of this is likely going to matter in a few months once we find something else to get outraged over. It's just like the poor Palestinians: one of them gets brutalized by the IDF, protests kick off on the Strip, few other countries join in, and then everyone forgets within a month. The media is partly responsible, but it also our own fault that we forget about news that isn't deemed to be trendy.
Police brutality isn't strictly an American issue obviously, but we absolutely are the worst when it comes to it (in terms of the first world). It's not even close. 950 on average are killed a year. 97% of the police responsible are let go without being reprimanded. There is literally no comparison. We send outdated military equipment to trigger-happy, poorly trained maniacs who uphold a deeply racist institution that has no hope of reformation without accountability. You know how other countries would consider their police incidents to be mostly isolated and not representative of the whole force? The complete opposite is believed here. Unless you dig your head into the sand and go blah blah blah all day, it becomes clear that US cops are on a power trip with minimal restraint being exercised.
We even have a website dedicated to it since it's so bad:
https://mappingpoliceviolence.orgI'd go as far as to say that the problem is based in just how low the standards are for joining. They are ill-trained and with no consideration for others. This whole "notallcops" bullshit just distracts from the actual issue being faced.
