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Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana (wiredposts.com)
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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

In Les Miserables, the protagonist was imprisoned under the grotesquely unjust French laws of the time for stealing a loaf of bread.

In the US there wouldn't have been a story because they would've just shot him.