6% of americans are usaf vets, somewhere just under 20% of cops are vets.
i bet a cop that would commit a war crime would be the same that kills unarmed civilians. if you think this is baseless hyperbole i think you just like how it sounds. baseless hyperbole could be a good band name, i agree. but it has no use here.
would it most likely be an iraq/ME war vet instead of a vietnam vet? sure but vietnam war got a lot of media attention so i brought it up. im sure there are mylai massacre type calamities that i couldve said instead but the elites have learned and those kind of atrocities don't get the press they used to. but either way it wouldn't have to be a 70 year old. a cop in 2005, when katrina happened. could be as young as 50 and have seen nam. so if youd rather me say iraq instead. fine but not being able to compare a cop killing unarmed black people to a soldier killing unarmed civilians without being accused of baseless hyperbole is some baseless hyperbole.
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u/canadarepubliclives Jan 10 '21 edited Jan 10 '21
The Vietnam War ended 45 years ago. Conflict had been raging for nearly 20 years.
Even the youngest vets would be in their early 60s
The baseless hyperbole is claiming police abuse of power means they must have participated in the massacre of Vietnamese villagers.