• BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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    Israeli police are truly awful in my experience. They are not the Army, so that’s an important distinction, but they are some of the worst people I’ve crossed paths with in Israel. They don’t need an excuse to be racist and violent, that’s pretty much what they’re there for.

    I once called the police on a group of people who were harassing a woman. When the police showed up, all they did was start cracking up, like legit rolling on the ground laughing, because the group of people doing the harassing turned out to be the latest class of police trainees who had just graduated. I guess they were celebrating by harassing a random woman? Needless to say, no one was held accountable, and I was told if I wasn’t American they would have arrested me.

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      but they are some of the worst people I’ve crossed paths with

      Sooo… just like pig everywhere?

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        Yeah surprisingly similar actually. Israeli police are somehow even more flagrant and overt about it though, they openly defend their use of racial profiling and are even less restrained in how they choose to dole out violence. In Israel and the occupied territories, Arab Israelis and Palestinians are targets of suspicion, by default, in a pretty similar way to how black and brown Americans are targeted by authority as a matter of daily life.

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      Unlike the Army, they’re allowed to use chemical weapons.Well, not that the Israeli military lets the Geneva Conventions get in the way of their offensives.

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      Most cops are fucking awful, globally. That’s why they sought out a cop job in the first place; copping enable assholes to apply pressure and power on anyone they feel like with little to no possibile recourse

      It’s absolutely not unique to America at all