I just see on tv that the afro americans in the usa are teaching their children the 10 rules of survival if they come into police control ... is that right ?? children are controlled by the police and should learn how to survive a control ?? I don't want to get too close to anyone, but I don't know what to get upset about, if that is true, we are told a lot on TV here in Germany ... we have strict rules regarding the possession of weapons, such as it is handled in the usa is unthinkable for us. I am a pacifist and stand by the weapons, no matter what type, have never led to anything good ...

can someone answer the question if these rules really exist? as I said; I have not believed for a long time what is being said and shown here ...

I live right next to the USA and I am confused. Don't feel bad. I am in BC Canada. People here don't carry weapons but the police do. As a whole Canada does not want weapons on anyone. The BLM movement here is asking for police to not be allowed to carry weapons anymore. Also put police funds into other programs. Like mental health and social assistance. Police violence against certain demographics is occurring here too. Not as frequently, but still there are many situations where it is deadly. I hope you stay safe in Germany! With love <3

unfortunately, the issue is also with us, not to the extent, but we have other bad problems in the direction. I am fundamentally against weapons and wonder why so many people have weapons there and then get upset when something happens to them. Our police also carry them, but tear gas is mostly used as the means of choice, and very rarely weapons. our police here could not deal with the type of violence that prevails there, we are a bunch of people who like to discuss ... which does not really help us, but that is another matter.

yesterday i was just so scared of the idea of ​​what the little ones are taught early on, in an age where they should play, be carefree child and have no thought about how to get home alive. these are children, what kind of world do we live in? we make the problems, so it is up to us to solve them. there was a clever man who said; in the 4th world war we will fight with clubs, we are on the best way there ...

thank you for your friendly answer, it is a sensitive topic and if you do not know such things you have to be careful when choosing words

I live in the us. Let me break down some of the issues:

1. Our police are VERY violent. They always have been. They delight in abusing "suspects", and they particularly like attacking non-white folks. In California, there's a police department that lets cops with kill counts join a private club called the "executioners". Police departments have commemorative tokens for high-profile murders they commit. or people they get admitted to mental facilities, or people they defame. When we protest peacefully, they gas us and shoot rubber bullets at us and try to claim boxes of candles, empty water bottles, and tools in little tool kits are "dangerous weapons". They see all private citizens as targets, but especially our non-white citizens. Black and Indigenous people are the most highly-targeted by police to murder and assault. They kill children - look at the Tamir Rice case. 12 years old, sitting in a gazebo with a toy. Cleveland police pulled up and immediately opened fire. No questions. No discussions. They killed a child. No charges stuck. The cop was fired FOR NOT DISCLOSING HE WAS DEEMED EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE BY THE LAST DEPARTMENT HE WORKED FOR, but was never held accountable for he murder of a little boy.

2. Property damage isn't violence. Hardly any of our police are ever charged for their heinous, violent crimes, even if they've been caught on camera planting evidence and discussing how to spin a murder. After decades of zero accountability and barely any results, people in America are exhausted. We're tired of the police treating Black and Indigenous people as easy kills. We're tired of military tactics being employed against us for protesting their methods. We're exhausted. When no justice is ever served, when nothing we do works, anger and pain boils over. The US has made a hard turn to Fascism. Forced hysterectomies on afab immigrants we've put in concentration camps (without anaesthesia), arresting people for peaceful protests, forcing through a cultist to the supreme court (literally, she's part of the Christian sect Margaret Atwood based A Handmaid's Tale on), trying to end voting for millions, doctoring cdc numbers, calling for a war on progressive folks fighting for justice and a voice... We fight back in the only way we can. Breaking windows. Burning empty buildings. All the people at the top care about is money, so we hit them right in the wallets.

3. The police band together. When someone inside tries to expose them, they fire them and start destroying their reputations. They love the power and free license to kill they have, and they refuse to let that power go. They're bloated on money and kickbacks from the government, pampered as much as our ridiculous military is. Many are white supremacists. They aren't ever going to change.

As racist as the police in, say, the UK are, they don't carry guns so at least they can't outright kill people, not easily, not in any way that can be defended. Here in the US the whole system is corrupt and bloody. We want it dismantled, we want community care, not Stormtroopers eager for violence.

Honestly I was going to attempt to explain it, but just did that better than I could have. For me as a US citizen, I think the funding on the police should go into programs that can SOLVE those issues without killing innocent people no matter what color, gender, sexuality, what have you. Mental health programs, assistance programs, all that good stuff.

The 10 Rules of Survival you're talking about too are, sadly, something that near all Black parents have to explain to their kids. If others aren't sure what the 10 rules are, here you go. While they might read as common sense or basic decency, they're strict protocol for Black US citizens to just survive a traffic stop or being pulled aside.

Every Black person I've known has had a close call with the police, if not multiple times. Times when they all sincerely thought they were not going to make it home that night, all for something as small as minor traffic violations or petty theft. Or, more than likely, for nothing other than being Black and the police claiming they were somehow "threatened" by them.

Which is also a major, major issue with the police's infrastructure right now: they, as civil servants/govt. officials, are given something called qualified immunity. Long story short, so long as they can say they felt they were afraid for their life or their actions were justified, they will not be held accountable. This protects police from being sued by the families of those murdered by them because it shields them from civil suits. Which is also why, as pointed out, killer cops rarely see justice. They just get moved around to other departments or let go on gentle technicalities that will preserve their retirement and pensions.

Everything about it is a complete and horrific mess from top to bottom. When an entire portion of a nation's population has to live in constant, mortal fear of the ones meant to enforce laws and preserve peace, shit's busted and has gotta change.

If you live in low class neighborhoods here, even if you're not a person of color, you have to be looking out for people of colors kids in case the cops come around. I'm white as rice, but my spouse is mixed and so are our kids. A lot of my son's friends are people of color as well. I've had to drag them inside while they were playing with water guns because I thought I heard a police cruiser.

explained it really well. Police are extremely violent and even in areas they aren't particularly kill crazed, they still abuse power and try to scare people. During the protests I was scared to death that my husband was going to get pulled over and shot while working his gig job because of his skin tone. In the winter he looks lighter, so it's not as scary, but in the summertime he looks half black and it scares me when he's out at night with friends or taking too long coming home from work. He had a lot of issues with the police as a kid / teenager just because of his skin tone. We specifically moved to an out of the way apartment community this year just because the police don't patrol this area with cars ever.