Reporting via others and I have a couple live feeds. I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon and on Monday in Norman.
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Welp, my friend in Dallas got teargassed basically outside his front door. He was out there with his giant camera, and it’s obvious he was not being violent.
Be safe out there!
STAHP
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It’s become crystal clear, if it wasn’t already, that the police view recording their behavior as a threat to their “safety.” They are consistently behaving like organized crime.
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Sucks. The Dallas PD had been doing a lot of things right with policing. Hopefully it doesn’t get any worse
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I think a huge crossing-of-the-Rubcon moment we’re witnessing right now is cops shoving white people. Students of history will remember that the first time black people tried to march across the Edumund Pettus bridge to Selma, the cops beat the shit out of them. The second time, white people joined in the march and the cops let them pass. Everyone understood that TV footage of cops beating up white people was unacceptable.
The cops give no fucks now. It’s unprecedented. If you’re an elderly man waiting at a bus stop in Salt Lake CIty, the cops will still jump out of their armored monster truck to beat the shit out of you. It’s an unprecedented strategic blunder. The Rubicon has been crossed. They fucked up man, it’s no longer white vs. black, it’s cops vs. everyone else in America.
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They’ve done this consistently since like the invention of photography.
Yeah, I know. People need to talk more about it, though. It’s not that they’re doing it, it’s why they’re doing it.
No nononononono. What’s the purpose of burning it all down if you’re just going to punt to the donkeys again? ~facepalm~ Are you into arson or something?
The rent’s due on Monday. We don’t need cops coming into our neighborhoods killing us, and we don’t need cops coming into our neighborhoods evicting us. It’s the same damn la lucha.
These twin disasters present a once in a lifetime opportunity to do the right things. Nobody alive should expect to get another. Let’s not waste it.
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The question is whether or not it will matter. In the past, it would have mattered, but white was white and black was black. Everyone in that society understood the order of things, and who could be touched or not.
In today’s society, liberal is less than to a huge chunk of the population, including the president.
All that said, the language that white folks are using about cops today is very different. It’s making some difference, but I’m not sure if enough people are paying enough attention yet. There are a LOT of white liberals who just go into the booth and pull the lever for the Dems every general election, and think that absolves them of any guilt for injustice in America, like going into confess in a Catholic church or something.
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A corollary here is that it is extremely important for doughy middle-aged white dudes to show up at these protests. The Boogaloo idiots want to spin race war bullshit, but the cops smacking around tell a different story. Cops vs. black people was a thing we were fine living with in 1968, but cops vs. everyone doesn’t sit well with anyone. Ya fuckers are outnumbered.
Back in my day in Berkeley cops beat the shit out of plenty of white people. Also, plenty of the white people protesting in the south got beaten or killed - at least if you count Jews as white people.
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Trump and Barr have made it clear to the asshole cops that they have free reign. Even if these cops get fired/arrested, Trump will pardon them eventually.
lol, Irish Catholics were barely considered white people back in those days. ofc no one in polite society minded if a few Jews got beaten up.