The US had a lawless and vicious beginning glorified and romanticised by Hollywood to the point that emotionally it replaced reality.
As a Nation they believe that characters played by Willis, Stallone and Schwarzenegger et al are real and somewhere between aspire to be like them and believe that they are them.
One only has to watch any Reality TV about American Authorities, police, customers or whatever, and listen to their speech and watch their behaviour. Their self-image is beyond belief. I rarely watch US Reality TV, but on the occasions I do they are unreal. I saw one where they had stopped a young lad on the US/Canada border who wanted to go by bus to meet his internet sweetheart on the other side.
THey terrorised the lad before ending with "Well, we didn't find anything this time but it'll be a lesson for him so he doesn't try anything next time".
Derek Chauvin wasn't some crazed killer, he was just a US cop behaving with all the righteousness and entitlement that they all behave with. And don't be thinking the non-white police are any better.
I've lived in the US a lot over the years and they've always treated me well and respectfully. At one point I was living in a nice house in Palo Alto next to a Black American working at the same place as me. Great chap, VP Sales.
The s*** he used to go with was unbelievable, and I witnessed it. Just endless hassle of being stopped, questions, bothered in front of his wife and kids often.
There are many non-white in the US who deserve everything they get. There are many, many more who do not and who are abused.
And my experience their bosses will think them totally in the wrong for doing it in front of people and getting caught. Not for just doing it.
Even the good ones can get caught up in it all.
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