#defending the idea that most cops are well intentioned and good and... I can't anymore

[kyliaquilor]

Yeah, but unfortunately, this isn’t technically a war. Nor do the Geneva Conventions generally apply to domestic/internal crackdowns. It’s kind of one of the ways you can get a bunch of countries to agree to them, even dictatorships.

Now, these are horrifying and awful things that probably *should* be held at the level of being war crimes, but they aren’t. The Media absolutely should be talking about all this - but they also are talking about many instances. Not enough, in part because there aren’t enough hours in the day, and in part due to various other, less acceptable reasons (including media sensationalism focusing on violence, corporate pro-police standpoints and yes, racism on the part of some/many executives and the like in the media beyond a shadow of a doubt) But these things are bad in of themselves - bring up “war crimes” and “the Geneva conventions” is unhelpful because broadly speaking, neither applies in this context and two, because these things are just bad in of themselves.