That’s it. That’s America’s broken justice system in one sentence — and looking at the numbers, that claim may actually be true.
I understand the article and tweet had good intentions, but in fact it’s just another example of how Americans have no clue about what’s happening in the rest of the world.
This is the data the article is using to support its claims that in no other country in the world more people are killed by the police than in the US (btw, America is a continent):
While Germany, UK, Australia and Japan have much smaller numbers indeed, highly developed are not the only other countries in the world. Shocking, I know.
If micdotcom journalists had actually done their jobs, they would have found out that police in Brazil killed 2.212 people in 2013, twice as much as in the US. And as far as I’m concerned, State Dept. has no problem with Americans visiting Brazil.
This article was written from an incredibly Eurocentric mindset and point of view. But since when have Americans cared about the lives of Latin Americans (or the lives of anyone living in 3rd world countries) - after all, didn’t their Secretary of State said Latin America is their “backyard”?
(BTW “America”, aka USA, is, in fact, NOT a continent, but a country. North America is a continent, that contains various countries that include USA, as well as Mexico, Canada, etc. South America is also a continent that contains various countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Peru, etc.) Just sayin’.
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