I thought we only called them gherkins if they were sliced with that wavy slicer!

like school holiday or advanced music pogrom or something?

This sounds like a Police shooting apologist trying to be diplomatic in an overly gunned up, extremely inequitable and racist country.

I'm not saying you are, but if I was looking to explain away something that is not at all good, this is how I'd do it.

This graph doesn't show that police don't kill more people, for that we'd need the x axis per capita of police not general population.

Australia, Canada and New Zealand are your post colonial peers.

My point is these are the countries who the US claims as closest allies and peers on one hand. Then on the other we get people like you saying how well you do in humanitarian metrics compared to Brazil and India.

It seems like people in the US get really offended when it is pointed out their country really should be doing better on a bunch of metrics

Is the US the "leader of the free world" or "should be compared to developing nations".

Choose one.