United States has deployed tens of thousands of largely uneducated, unfit, untrained 18 to 50-year-old predominately white males, morbidly badged 'police'.
Masked, costumed and wielding military grade weapons, these roving gangs racially profile and abduct people, sometimes in a targetted fashion, sometimes at random.
Competing federal and state administrations and the gross politicisation of the judiciary have allowed this activity to expand exponentially as rule of law breaks down and physical assaults and disappearances become common place, often going unchallenged excepting the occasional heroic actions of individuals and small groups of civilians.
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