“After an extensive review, we found that police officers in Lexington routinely make illegal arrests, use brutal and unnecessary force and punish people for their poverty — including by jailing people who cannot afford to pay fines or money bail,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who leads the civil rights division. “For too long, the Lexington Police Department has been playing by its own rules and operating with impunity. It’s time for this to end.”
Seems pretty standard for the south (Missouri is south-adjacent).
So it wasn’t worth posting?
Defensive much?
I just don’t get those comments all the time. They arrest 10 times as many people as the average in Mississippi, so it can’t be normal.
It’s like saying ‘nothing to see here’
No, it’s not like saying that at all. Comparable racially motivated arrest rates (and criticism) happens in towns like Ferguson, MO; Brookside, AL; Pine Lawn, MO; St. Ann, MO; Country Club Hills, MO; Walnut Grove, MS; Benton, AR; and Richland, MS to name only a few.
Each of them is, as the commenter pointed out, in the south and many are in Missouri and Mississippi. These are racist towns that use arrests and police violence against, usually, black people as a violent form of oppression. Perhaps Ferguson, MO rings a bell?
The other commenter wasn’t saying “there’s nothing to see here,” they are saying there’s a lot more to see here, and it happens to be regionally specific for these more egregious examples, but it happens across the country. Perhaps “Black Lives Matter” rings a bell? This is a large part of what BLM is about.
I can’t find news about such high arrest rates.
Thank you for listing these places, yes they are racist as well.
So now they’re going to do something about it, right?
Right?
Narrator: They weren’t.
ACAB
I’m shocked! Next you’ll tell me it’s against minorities or something.
making one arrest for every four residents over the past two years.
For non-Americans this is truely shocking. You act like it’s nothing new.
Edit: Mississippi has an incarceration rate that is 15 times as high as Germany’s. Lexington’s rate is 10 times higher than Mississippi’s. For one arrest that happens in Germany, 150 people get arrested over there.
They’re not “acting” like it’s nothing new. It is nothing new, and we’ve had large, nation-wide protests because of it.
Perhaps you’ve noticed how the majority of the responses here are some sarcastic version of “yeah, no shit”?
What you don’t realize is that this is how poor people in America get healthcare. 🤣😅😐😭
I think people are responding the way they are because this isn’t new. We already know.
mississippi?! no wayyyyyyy
maybe the old “you hurt the ones you love” rings true, since every family tree is a wreath
The Justice Department is WOKE! Unless of course they Retract this then I DONT CARE because I THINK for MYSELF!
