It's not about them doing it too; it's acknowledging that the issue is not particular to one place to better understand the complexity of the issue. Most people in the US believe the US is particularly bad when it comes to policing but that is not true. Could we be better? Yes. Are we uniquely bad? No.

> They're doing it too so we should also?

It's the new logic. We may be doing the bad thing, but our worst enemies also do the bad thing, therefore the bad thing is good q.e.d.