America right now.

A civilian wearing a mask in a pandemic, representing the free press, being arrested while a cop stands in the back with a stick, as a fire looms in the background.

this one may be more striking, it's the actual reporter Omar being arrested

New Day on Twitter

He’ll of a thing to wake up to. Thanks for the clip

....Arresting a black reporter who is obviously a reporter, legally covering the riots caused by police brutality.

Goddamn.

That's as American as it gets, yeah

Who not only presented his credentials properly and asked if his team needed to move so they wouldn't be in the way, but no. Straight to the arrests, right on camera.

I wish I could be surprised. I'm just pissed.

What happened

Your country was so full of promises

Yet again, America is relatively young as a country... Is it the teen years? America trying to prove to its European parents its edgy by doing all sorts of evil rituals?

america was never full of promise

it was built on shit like this

It may be a young country, but our democracy is older than other democracies. It's seeing the signs of its age.

Especially since we stopped trying to amend it about a hundred years in.

We're driving the same pickup truck we bought in '76 and wondering why it's not running so well anymore. Sure we don't ever do any maintenance on it, but we're still putting gas in it. Isn't that enough?

I see the police came back in full war mode this morning

They basically abandoned the city last night