A year ago in the midst of the U.S.-backed military coup in Bolivia, left-wing mayor Patricia Arce was captured, beaten, had paint thrown on her, her hair chopped off and was paraded through the streets by right-wing thugs who wanted to intimidate supporters of Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism.
Yesterday, she was elected Senator.
That's my guess as to why the who "anti-police" "anti-authority" stuff is a lot of people's shtick. It will never damage the US's police state (it's way too organized, advanced, and supported by propaganda), but it can be weaponized to use against left-wing countries' "police states" under that same "anti-authority" rhetoric. The anti-cop rhetoric gets a lot of people on one's side, rightfully, but doesn't really do much in the long run. I mean for this dude to not be for the Bolivian government, which has even had like no police brutality incidents in the media or anything, is just ridiculous. "Anti-state" is just stupid.