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'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets (wegotthiscovered.com)

submitted 5 days ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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They grabbed a tourist off the street and detained her for eight hours while her daughter was left to fend for herself on the streets. NYC y'all better be starting some shit

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[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It shouldn't be, the evidence has been plentiful and easily available. It's not particularly crazy either, evil for sure but entirely in line with the interests of our ruling class and extremely historically precedented. Some folks just have to learn the hard way I guess.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I get it, but if you pitched this to a movie studio they'd say it was far fetched, so the average person can be forgiven, I think.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Movie studios are frequently run by morons, anyone who isn't completely politically & historically illiterate could tell you it's not far-fetched at all, and this person had the money for an international vacation so they're definitely not representative of the average anyway

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I think you're underestimating the normalcy bias and overestimating how much the average person outside the US understands about what's going on there.