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That's just a ridiculous statement.

There's hours of video online of American police screaming "stop resisting arrest!", while beating civilians senseless.

It's quite clearly a tactic employed by a lot of them to create plausible deniability of their appalling behavior.

Just goes to show what a distorted view of the world you get when watching through the lens of the media.

Selection bias, you see the videos that outrage you the most well you don't see the day to day reality. Police don't beat calm sensible people, they beat the kind of people who are out there resisting arrest.

The lack of critical thinking combined with the unearned confidence of this comment is really something.

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