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Originally Posted by misspoptart
I'm offended because you act like Turkey is a third-world country where the police just go around routinely beating people, and that there's no reason why this is news. You should see the water cannon tanks that are on fire in the square right now thanks to protestors who continue to protest this extremely rare occurrence.
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Whether the police use water cannons against thousands in the streets or routinely beat up undesirables in the cop shop, still amounts to police brutality. Just because the former according to you might be a rarity, doesn't make it any more disturbing than the second option which seems more common.
Police brutality is not always a product of a third-world country anyway, but usually of a country where the concepts of liberal democracy are either not that strong or where the police have always had a free reign anyway. For example in a country like Brazil which has always had a high level of poverty the economy has been booming, but police brutality there is just as bad as always and this is surely a throwback to their dictatorial days.