Before we all get carried away with "it couldn't happen here" let us remember that the training of the NSW Police has shifted and we have an armoured car, more emphasis on long range shooting and if the Lyndt Cafe is any indication a willingness to use para-military gear with disastrous results.

Ref. the American police driving wildly and fatally injuring a prisoner in the back of their van, contrast this with the Australian incident of police driving through the hot outback and having a prisoner die of neglect because he wasn't cared for properly.

Hey Is Mise,
They've got 'Bearcats' in QLD too.
http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/farnorth/2012/07/25/armoured-rescue-vehicle-launched-in-cairns/

Poirot

Its also a numbers game.

The racism isnt just on one side.

When the tribes, white,African and Mexican get the numbers to
go head to head over the control of the country they will.

Just as the Shia and Sunni tribe started killing each other over control of
Iraq. Something the Americans hadnt planned for because for a start
they think If they had killed Hitler there would have been no world war2

Its about time people understood, especially leaders in the West, that tribes, will go to
war even without a dictator like Suddam or Hitler or Trump for that matter if he did get elected.

The US made the same mistake

iIn reality this was once again a civil war, between the Allawarte tribe or whatever its
called around Assad and the so called moderate Sunni Arab tribe over control of Syrian
land and resources.

When will people in the West understand this, instead of, blaming just some leader
and not seeing the bitter fight over countries between tribes exactly as it
was in Germany. Maybe then they could show some judgement in what
would happen after they interfere in these countries.

Thank God Putin understood the tribal loyalties and what was really happenng in Syria.
The Western leaders never had a clue.
It was Putin who turned the Syrian war around, the West didnt have any idea what it was really all about or who was fighting who. Just their usual one evil leader nonsense
about Assad.

Once again we had two tribes there prepared to kill each other over Syrian control
and resources. The Tribe around Assad and the Sunni moderates,complicated by the addition of the Sunni Isis lot.

Wouldnt you think the US leaders would have been looking for the tribal support around Assad after the huge Saddam blunder.
They appear to have learnt nothing.

Hey SteeleRedux,
Michael Rivero's show today gives more angles on the situation.
http://youtu.be/CrMCaPQQwVE
Police brutality against both black and whites and the issue of civil forfeiture.
He also talks about FBI tactics in the 1960's with COINTELPRO and the Black Panther Party.
It's a good show and gives a fairly balanced view of things from the side of a reasonable thinking American that supports the constitution.

onthebeach and CHERFUL,
You should also have a listen too.

For Onthebeach, I'd like you to understand that not all people in the 'conspiracy theorist' category are irrational thinking people.
Some are quite intelligent and informed.

And CHERFUL,
Please don't take this the wrong way (because you seem to mean well) but your naive about the cause of all these wars you consider to be tribal.
It's not just the natural friction between different groups, races or religions that are the cause of these wars as much as other parties who seek to gain from a situation where one group of people is fighting with another group of people.
These things don't just happen by accident, they happen by design.
http://youtu.be/9RC1Mepk_Sw

Dear Armchair Critic,

Sorry mate but I don't have over 2 hours free to listen to a podcast. If you could give me a precises then I'm happy to respond.

Here is something shorter for you. It chronicles a Denver traffic stop in 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9-BjYxTu8

Pretty confronting.

CHEREFUL I also think tribalism is a major factor and I presume that religion
within a tribe is uniform. There does not seem to be any solution
available so perhaps it is time to write them off and try and isolate
ourselves from their disfunctional culture.