I think they believe enough people won’t care and they would do worse if they thought they could get away with it. And maybe the battle is won by inducing them to do worse.
The police?
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Had to look that up. Nice.
https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/1266921931359563780
They’re chasing the cameras out before they do the worst of what they’re doing. That’s why we’re seeing so many things on social media that we aren’t seeing on television.
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I disagree entirely. The Kent State shootings were all about shooting young, upper-middle class white girls. That changed shit. That shocked America. Cops shoving around young girls on CNN will make comfortable middle-aged white dudes pay attention.
A huge corollary of what I’m saying here is that my fellow comfortable white people need to get up in this game, it has to be us vs. the cops and not white vs.black. The Jewish freedom riders didn’t have to come out to support black voters, but they knew that they were in the same boat. If it’s white people vs. blacks then that’s a winnable battle, if it’s whites and blacks and Jews and fucking everyone vs. the cops, I know who wins that battle.
lol wat
Watching some of the the streams on unicorn riot the first two nights they were out there. Not many though.
Would not surprise me if they were stirring the pot to get their race war.
I agree with your take on Kent State. I just think things have changed.
What do you mean, lol wat? Just look at the stuff posted in this thread from Twitter. There are numerous videos of extreme brutality, there are also numerous videos of camera crews from CNN and MSNBC being fired on with tear gas or rubber bullets to chase them out of an area. This is almost always being done as the cops move in to knock heads and push protesters out of an area, and it’s because they don’t want video on live national television as they do their dirty work.
But you can find it on Twitter.
There’s no dearth of live recordings of virtually every human action
I’m talking about specifically on national television on CNN, MSNBC, etc… Those camera crews aren’t getting a lot of the footage of the worst of what’s going on. We’re seeing it on social media, instead.
lol yeah. thx for that juicy nug
Chicago police drew their guns on Hobbes before though so that might color his perception.
So there have been at least a couple Congress people in ny who have been pepper sprayed and injured, also a state assembly person (I think). The police are showing who they are to the world on tv and it seems like the country is split on who’s in the right, not sure how this is going to go.
This link shows a lot of the stuff police have been doing around the country and there’s a lot more not even linked in it
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Here’s some polling on Vietnam.
Where does it look like the turning point was in how Americans felt about the war? (Image from here.)
I have a picture from La Mesa tonight but I’m not sure if I should post it. As I said it turned violent when the cops decided they should “disperse” the crowd.
It is…not pleasant.
After Timpa fell unconscious, the officers who had him in handcuffs assumed he was asleep and didn’t confirm that he was breathing or feel for a pulse.
As precious minutes passed, the officers laughed and joked about waking Timpa up for school and making him waffles for breakfast.
Body camera footage obtained Tuesday by The Dallas Morning News shows first responders waited at least four minutes after Timpa became unresponsive to begin CPR. His nose was buried in the grass while officers claimed to hear him snoring – apparently unaware that the unarmed man was drawing his last breaths.
Timpa called 911 on Aug. 10, 2016, from the parking lot of a Dallas porn store, saying he was afraid and needed help. He told a dispatcher he suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was off his prescription medication. The News first reported Timpa’s death in a 2017 investigation that showed Dallas police refused to say how a man who had called 911 for help ended up dead.
I know your heart’s in the right place, and this is stuff deep into the advanced class, but your rhetoric, even though it’s effective as an oversimplified trope, does more harm than good in the long, long run.
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