Where do they get it from?
The relationship between police brutality, martial arts and toxic teaching practices
Over the last few months, political protests around the world that have started as peaceful marches and sit-ins to call for an end to supporting genocidal violence with taxpayer money, have disrupted in violence, mainly due to the violent tactics that police use to disrupt the protests in the first place.
This is a good opportunity to talk about police training, it’s relationship to martial arts and how it links all the way back to the death of George Floyd.
“MOST FIGHTS GO TO THE GROUND”
If you have ever been in the martial arts world, you may have heard Brazilian Jiujitsu people say “most fights end up on the ground.” But most police stations and prisons bring in martial artists at some point for additional restraing and defense training for officers and guards — this is global, by the way, not just in the US:
