If you're not in the US - how and why is policing fucked up in your country?
I'm in the US and it's bizarre to me how this sort of stuff is considered perfectly normal...
Of course, county sheriffs are political animals — each of the three attendees is facing challengers in the June 7 primary.
Also - shouldn't that flag be much bigger to show how much they love America?
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I like etymology and word usage and I was curious about "fever swamp" and google news gave me this seemingly odd result: SoCal sheriffs dive into fever swamp - Daily Breeze. The forum says the meeting became a "right-wing political rally".
An Indigenous Australian is 14 times more likely to be incarcerated than a non-Indigenous Australian
Settler colonial things
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-04/hopes-voice-could-bring-certainty-community-justice-wa/102922506
so they're some of the most violent freaks of the continent I guess, they're basically wannabe USA cops
