I didn't say she deserved it.
I didn't say it was fine she died.
As you pointed out here it appears the Police acting inappropriately.
Shall I leave you to argue with your strawman?
They Police could approach these communities the issue is they still have to have the kit on hand incase things change. In case it's needed.
Peaceful protesters aren't the problem and I've been trying to very much make a clear distinction between them and those causing trouble.
The problem is the cops
I'd rather not march with a guy who'd pull a gun on a cop and try to end an innocent officers life just because he couldn't see them as a human and who ends uprisking others lives because he thinks he's being a revolutionary.
So you would not march with the (Maoist Revolutionary anti-cop) Panthers? Thanks. They’re my heroes. Glad I can disregard you now.
1) I actually don't follow him
2) I'm guessing this is in relation to the strange claims of him doxxing a person because he happened to catch them on video at an event or something?
Literally nobody looks up anything on this grifting shit before believing him, huh? Mayday Cider Riots, his video of him joking around with the Proud Boys before they attacked people is what got them in legal trouble, video he would not release until forced and publicly lied about to protect them.
Nope not exclusive to cops. It's just hard to see how anyone burning down pharmacies or low cost housing is anything other than somewhat delusional and centred only in their own interests.
I don't need to pretend I'm on the right side here while also justifying any action against police as "they probably deserved it" or something like that. There are not 2 sides here and you must pick one or the other. There are 3 and the side I'm on condemns cops misuse or abuse of their tool but also condemns the rioters an looters or those who see Cops as less than human or less worthy of life too.
How is rectifying a system when the target merely changes but the attitudes and actions barely charge?
How is it rectifying the system to have the same cops do break rules following near identical training but we did an investigation? How is the system changed by doing fuck all, again, and lying that we’re better so Suburban liberals can sleep at night?
You grant so much empathy to the cops brutalizing the public, murdering innocents, and getting away with it, but call those who have become so utterly furious at this reality false actors, greedy rioters, or delusional. The cops are scared and poorly trained, the people cannot be afraid, they cannot be angry. The violence of the state is as natural as the air, the violence of the people created by the delusional or by conspiracy. You are lying. Perhaps not knowingly, but actually. Your understanding, your framing of society is deceptive. The police did this. Perhaps, yes, as a natural expression of the system, but so to must we communicate the error of that system, in the direct, predictable way. Sometimes that is protest, and sometimes that will be property damage. Often that will be damage to police property. But if we are to assume that the violence of the police is an inevitable expression of this system, then so too is the “violence” (I hesitate to call the majority of property damage violence, and will never equate it to permanent injury or death) against it an inevitable expression of how wrong that system is.