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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@jbouie It’s ahistorical with respect to those countries. In the Philippines, Duterte ramped up police violence not in response to actual violent crime but a somewhat overhyped drug epidemic. More than anything else, it was a tool of repression and power consolidation. — PolitiTweet.org