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Does the same type of incidents (police brutality) happen to minorities in Britain? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shadow79@piefed.social to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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For example back in 2020, in Minneapolis: George Floyd was killed by a white cop which sparked a worldwide protest regarding the BLM movement. That was a high profile one. However, before that: there are cases of "black kid gets shot for holding toy gun" or anything equivalent.

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[–] wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm in the US, so I don't have first hand knowledge, but the song “Black Boys on Mopeds” by Sinéad O’Connor is explicit enough evidence to tell me it does.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure a song lyric counts as evidence.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago

This is probably better evidence than a 35 year old song lyric.

Yes we have our issues, as does any country, but the US is way out there in terms of police brutality.