r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 4d ago

West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html
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u/CRKing77 4d ago

Imagine being a child, knowing what's happening to you is bad, and the cops are the good guys, they'll save you. The smiling policeman shakes hands with your abuser and walks away, leaving you to be abused more.

Then you see those same policemen get hailed as "heroes who sacrifice it all to save the day" when in reality they are lazy sociopaths in it for the power.

Yeah...yeah I feel a certain way about police

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u/Psychological_Fish37 3d ago

Yeah...yeah I feel a certain way about police

You aren't wrong, it took generations of Copaganda to change Americans having healthy skepticism of LEOs to be drooling admirers of Jack booted thugs.