magic9mushroom
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magic9mushroom
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14hr ago
Labour MPs defend race-based policing
The video here is not someone defending race-based policing. It's someone from the opposition (not sure if Tory or Reform) attacking the government (i.e. Labour) for race-based policing and asking them to stop it. The reply could well have defended it, but it's not included in that video.
The one thing I'll say in the police's defence is that the policewoman saying "Oh no, but we have to check, don't we?" might not have believed what she was saying. It's plausible she was just saying that to the Sikhs so that they didn't interfere while she was trying to examine him for wounds - the old "in dangerous situations, police will flat-out lie to you if they think that's what will get you to do what they want" playbook. I have certain misgivings about said playbook, since it causes its own problems with people who know about it and thus can't trust the police in such situations, but "certain misgivings from universalisability" sure as hell beats "literal racial stereotyping" so I feel it needs to be pointed out.
This doesn't excuse anything else, though.
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