Last week, 11 Starbucks workers and supporters were arrested by Chicago police during a sit-in at one of the city’s earliest unionized Starbucks locations. The protest took place during Starbucks’ annual shareholder meeting.

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    Police are the remnants of private slave catching and manhunting services. Post civil war the government started employing them to control these aimless groups of mercenaries instead of forcing them to be dissolved. Since then they have been used as tools of property owners to protect their property at the expense of society. This is why cops in the US are worse than almost anywhere else.