NYPD cruisers drive into protesters who were pelting, pushing barricade against police car, knocking several to ground

It's the same "just one bad individual" argument, assuming they are backed into a corner they can't do mental gymnastics to blame it on the victim.

Most people who are lucky enough to not have dealt with police as a lower class citizen will simply refuse to acknowledge any argument that the problem exists let alone is systemic.

-My family watches fox cable news almost exclusively and I have to listen to their lazy opinions every day. They don't seek out information, context, think critically, or view any issue from multiple perspectives. They are happy to be spoon-fed rhetoric designed specifically to manipulate them into thinking it's always tHe LiBeRaLs and Republicans are the only sane/responsible people on earth! There is a well crafted narrative at all times that anyone who isn't conservative is just a naive idiot or degenerate loser. They are taught to assume this, to exclude the need to listen to the other side.

"They should use machine guns on those people. This is ridiculous!"

-My caring and otherwise normal 86 year old grandma, watching Fox, who literally just play video of the rioting damage and nothing else nonstop with zero context other than "this is the protest over that one little police whoopsie. (look how awful these ni... people are!)

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