Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead - eviltoast
Brad Balzan died a violent death in his own backyard. Some are calling it "the worst outcome imaginable of proactive policing".

Alternative title: NSW cops murder a kid because he ran home when 4 people in plain clothes pile out of a car and accost him. For wearing a hoodie.

  • ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    America and by extension other parts of the world are too busy with culture war shit to notice the real war going on.

    And people wonder why anyone with half a brain keeps say the world is sliding into a Conservative shitehole.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      151·
      8 months ago

      Idk what the usa has to do with this. We’ve had an authoritarian policing style since our days as a prison colony. Our old cities are designed without public squares to prevent assembly. It’s… not good.

      It got worse faster since 2001 and the islamophobic moral panic around terrorism. Even our Parliament house, designed to have a green on top so pollies would remember they are below the people, is fenced off now with armed coppas.