Don't Canadians also do the less racist thing?
To be honest, it's hard to get mad at Europeans when they typically have the gun laws to stop police from killing civilians or people get out of being charged for the murder of black teens. So they've got a point. I'd rather be called a monkey than have to fear for my life just because I'm going out at night.
Honestly, the American side of this always comes off as some inferiority complex where Americans - especially people who typically do not have to even go through living in America as a colored person - can't admit that their crappy countries entire history is one made up of blood, slavery, stealing, greed, abuse of power, and racism. So they have to point fingers at Europeans while ignoring the fact that police gunned down a 12 year old black boy the other day because he had a fake gun and yet the general populace is trying to justify it. Every place in the world is racist. No shit Europe is racist. Stop trying bounce off the criticisms of your shitty country by pointing fingers to show that "see? They're racist too!" But not before you shoot a black anime cosplayer six times in the back because he's got a replica sword.
Shut the fuck up Americans, and admit your country sucks.
It's not a policing issue.
Violent crime
overall is higher in America. The homicide rate alone is something like 5 times that of every other developed nation on the planet.
I don't know where you come up with an analysis that attributes European/Canadian gun laws with stopping police from shooting people. Gun control doesn't stop
police from "killing civilians". It stops
civilians from killing civilians.
On a "big picture" level,
of course America is going to have more of an issue with police use of violence, compared with Europe/Japan/Australia/New Zealand. They're policing in the context of a society that is 5 times more violent than those countries. And it would be an order of magnitude worse in countries such as Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, etc, because those countries are an order of magnitude worse than America for violence.
I don't think reducing the answer of why America has a violent crime rate that much higher than its "companion" countries to "racism", or to emphasize certain violent police incidents, helps to get at the crux of the matter, though.
