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American Exceptionalism means always insisting this bad policy is an aberration from the virtuous norm.
What ICE is doing is exactly what the US did abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Grenada, Latin America, Vietnam, and Korea. It is how we fought the War on Crime and the War on Drugs and the War on Immigration. It is why black men are terrified of police interactions of any sort and why homeless people so often go missing.
Jonathan Ross spent two years in Iraq as a machine gunner, before returning home to join the border patrol, SWAT, and to operate in a joint FBI anti-terrorism task force.
This is absolutely the kind of guy who has been trained from day one to shout conflicting orders at you before shooting you in the face. He's been doing this his entire career.
I agree with everything you wrote, but there is a key difference to what happened before, and as shitty as it is to point out, the difference is that now white people and even state/local police are being targeted. That's why suddenly people care who didn't give a shit about all of your examples from the past.
It's also reflected on the geopolitical scale. It took years of genocide for the governments of Europe to somewhat make some empty hearted protest over Palestine. Hardly anyone has made a protest about Venezuela. But the moment the imperial eye turns inwards towards Greenland, Europe starts to act appalled.
I don't want the BRIC countries anywhere near the USA, but a lot of countries need to realize this is going to continue until the Republicans are out of power. Not just Trump, the entire party.
George Floyd wasn’t exactly pale.