Most people reading this know me, but in case you don't, here's the lowdown so far: I'm Elaine - I'm an Asian American expat brat who first moved out of the States at 4 & first hit up China at 13. Since then, I've been in & out of New York & Shanghai, mostly blogging.

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UC Davis police officer pepper sprays sitting students because, well, just because.

Think that’s %$#ing horrible? The video’s worse.

Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog:

I’m sorry, this has gone too far. This has happened in police department after police department, and it has gone too far. Our police look like the goons in Russia and China. Please watch this video and send it to everyone you know. This has gone too far.

One of the weird things about being connected to news feeds from all over the world (well, mostly detailed ones from the U.S. and China), is that whenever I’m about to exuberantly type about something I learned over here about innovation and the goodness of technology and CHANGE(!!), I open up Tumblr (or Twitter) and come across this and the wind comes out of my sails.

I’m used to seeing it from my China feed, which is currently tweeting and RTing this story of a nine-seat van carrying 63 kindergartenders that crashed into a truck and killed 20 of the passengers. It’s a stark example of the outrageous injustices that happen all the time in so many places thanks to badly enforced regulation and no effective method of stymieing political corruption.

But man. The US feed is supposed to be about funny charts and occasional videos of politicians acting stupid. Instead, there’s been horrible pictures like this or this (of a maced granny) which AmericaBlog has pointed out seems so… aberrant.

I’m not complaining or saying that now that it’s happening, it shouldn’t be on my feed. I’m just so so so disappointed that this is being allowed to happen at all in America. It’s inexcusable enough in China, where there hasn’t been a long debate about human rights and sticking to the charters we’ve created to protect those rights. In America, where we love to tout our democratic process and our love of peaceful protest and always having a voice… what the fuck!

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Random notes:

a) The amount of cameras/cameraphones all around.

b) Does that cop have his hand in his pocket?

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