A server I'm in celebrates every cop death from around the world that pops up on any of our news feeds, but most consistently in places like America, the imagery and ceremony feels indistinguishable from military honours.
I can't get over how much America is a—can one really call it a police state anymore? Is that an understatement? Imagery like the photo in the above article is what you expect to see from a soldier killed in action in some far off land, returning home to be buried in their home soil—except it wasn't a far off land, it was a backwater town in America... by a semi.
Which is funny, but also kinda disturbing. I really do feel that America has gone far beyond police state. This is a military occupation, and the way local governments are treating anti-genocide protests is also underlining that sobering reality.
Edit: friend in that server makes a unsettling point about the militarization of police in America, that the U.S. constitution generally prohibits the deployment of military forces against its own citizenry, but fascists were able to do a ridiculously simple end run around the Constitution without passing any contentious new amendments by simply promoting law enforcement into being a new military branch but not changing the name.
