[Niall]

Originally Posted by lostalex

says someone that had riots in their own country because the police killed a black person...

yea, America is so much worse...hypocrite.

I'm sorry, but how many people have been shot by police since then? Zero. Z e r o. And in that particular instance not only was Mark Duggan a proven criminal, but it was a carefully orchestrated thing.

On your side of the water however? There's no officially released figure for how many people are shot by the police year on year, but it's known that it's far higher than any other nation in the world. Year on year scores of individuals - vast swathes of them black men and women - are shot to death rather needlessly by heavy handed police officers. Or, as in the case of Darren Wilson, racist police officers (as shown by his connections to the KKK)!

The British police are by no means perfect, but the kinds of institutionally racist oppression that the American cops push down on people of colour isn't something that's ****ing mirrored here so no, I am not a hypocrite.

For example, I don't recall British cops strangling a man to death and then pretending he's not dead like this, and then refusing to indict the officer. Nor have I ever seen footage of this calibre over and over of police brutalising innocent citizens here in Britain.

So yes, America is far far worse.