Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. When American patience for ...
Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. When American patience for #RacialProfiling in traffic stops reached a breaking point, cops rolled out dashcams. Dashcam footage went AWOL, or just recorded lots of racist, pretextual stops. Racial profiling continued.
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