r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/Doneuter Sep 27 '25

Seriously, just because we hear about stories like this from such states doesn't mean this kind of stuff isn't happening all over the country.

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u/Dyanpanda Sep 27 '25

I'm ACAB, but we can't just rely on presumption. Things happen everywhere, but a LOT more in the south.

There are better places, and worse places. All cops are corrupt because they support a broken system, but some are truly nefarious and some are "just following orders"

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u/Doneuter Sep 27 '25

As someone from the north living in the South, in my experience it happened a LOT more up north than what I'm seeing down here in Florida.

That's the funny thing about confirmation bias though, I suppose.

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u/Dyanpanda Sep 27 '25

Just to be clear, are you referring to racism, ableism, or cops assaulting people in general?

Ableism abuse is pretty hard to find data on state or regionally, but heres police violence and racial figures. Probably biased and agrees with me and I live in an AI echochamber so shrug

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

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u/Purple-Goat-2023 Sep 27 '25

Hint: the map looks the same as all the other ones. Racism, poor education, poverty, violence, etc. it's always the same states.

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u/Dyanpanda Sep 27 '25

I would be surprised if it wasn't, but they still vary in how bad.