Tim Walz ordered thousands of soldiers to occupy my city. There were armored men with guns and armored military vehicles everywhere. He did this to protect a murdercop.
Tim Walz ordered thousands of soldiers to occupy my city. There were armored men with guns and armored military vehicles everywhere. He did this to protect a murdercop.
I've tried and tried and tried to hammer this in to Libs; It wasn't Trump who sent the US Army in to my city to crush democratic organizing and political unrest, to protect a white cop and uphold white supremacy, to hold the population at gunpoint while the deeply corrupt and illegitimate judiciary did it's thing.
It was Tim Walz.
He deployed thousands of US Army soldiers throughout Minneapolis in the days surrounding the reading of the verdict of one of the George Floyd murder cases. If the judiciary let that cop walk free he was going to maintain order no matter how many (black) people he had to murder to do it. I was trying to reassure my friends that the feds probably hadn't issued ammunition to all the National Guard pukes marching through the streets, that the armored cars didn't actually have machine guns fitted, but idk what the fuck they would have done if people had risen up in the aftermath if what's his ass had been allowed to walk. I assume they brought in a military occupation because they intended to use it.
One of the most
moments I had about the Floyd uprisings was when the lib mayor of Seattle announced a pause on tear gas being used against protesters like it was some benevolence she decided to gift upon the people, and it was literally because the SPD had ran out of it because they were using so much, and then they resumed gassing protesters once they got a resupply shipment in.
Those days were fucking crazy. I actually had hope back then too, though. Like I'd never seen this much sustained rioting across the nation where like average people were organizing and systematically sparring with local authority - i think it's honestly why quarantine ended the way it did - the loss of life was acceptable far more than a situation where an already disquieted populace had the time and means to actually challenge the fascist order of the day domestically
To cope I like to think of it the way Lenin did 1905 - as a dress rehearsal
I mean what did you expect from something with the acronym SPD?
"Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!"
it was literally because the SPD had ran out of it because they were using so much, and then they resumed gassing protesters once they got a resupply shipment in.
Holy fuck. Adding that factoid to my liberal bashing!
The proliferation of these cop cities is concerning in the same vein. They're training a literal army of police to suppress whatever domestic response they get to their unpopular policies over the next couple of decades.
We're bringing the School of the Americas back to America!
And they're starting a BA program in
studies.
Adam from
has mentioned how the ruling class does not want another summer 2020All that energy will build up again. Maybe it'll take another two decades but, these sort of protest movements tend to be cyclical like that. It has to go somewhere next time. Probably by then they'll have perfected the technologies of social control that they want deployed over the Internet, the same way they eventually mastered radio, film, and television. That'll make organizing coherent protests harder and maybe kill the protests in their crib.
Honestly I look forward to getting to pop me a pig in the next ten years
And whoever removed this is a peckerwood supreme
Trump let Covid rip through the country
But it was Joe Biden who said it was over and immediately cut my food stamps from 280 to 24 dollars a month
yeah, Biden let covid rip even more.. in fact, it is STILL ripping..
Covid is goin for a rip
Chauvin only got convicted cuz we burned shit. Don't let them forget that's what it takes.
Yup. They only arrested him after Minneapolis brought down the third precinct. They were going to let him walk until they saw what that would cost.
I'm confused. Why was the judiciary deeply corrupt and illegitimate? It wasn't the judge that determined guilt, it was a jury. Derek Chauvin was charged and found guilty and is currently in prison. I hear complaints about the national guard being in our cities, but that is the authority the state has and they are correct to use it when there is risk to public safety from civil unrest.
Wrong. The national guard should have been deployed against the cops to protect us from the biggest white power gang in the US.
It is possible to do that, but to my knowledge it's only happened once
Warned about the size of the force Bowers was raising, Governor Davis Hanson Waite interceded again in the strike. He issued a proclamation on May 27 in which he called on the miners to disband their encampment on Bull Hill. In a development unparalleled in American labor history, he also declared the force of 1,200 deputies to be illegal and ordered the group disbanded. He also ordered the state militia to be on the alert for a possible move on Cripple Creek. On May 28, the governor visited the miners, who authorized Waite to negotiate on their behalf.
He's in prison because there was an uprising. They were prepared to let him walk. That's the default when a cop kills someone. That's what happened in Chauvin's previous brutality cases. The judiciary was corrupt in the way that all of them are, because the footsoldiers of the law aren't subject to that law.
The jury are one part of the process, but the judiciary has many levers to affect the outcome. For example, they can bar certain evidence from the court.
As for calling the national guard: Derek Chauvin is guilty, we all fucking saw what he did. The entire thing is on camera. A court cannot change reality. If the court had found him innocent, that would have been a miscarriage of justice against the people of this country. When we exhaust peaceful avenues, when a court fails to convict an obviously guilty man who murdered one of us in cold blood on camera, the only other way to defend ourselves from the same thing happening again is to fight back, to use the last remaining tool we have: ourselves, our power in numbers, the one thing they cannot take away from us.
You're the white moderate MLK decried in his letter from a Birmingham jail, the fucking sadsack who prefers an empty peace, the absence of conflict, rather than the presence of justice. You don't give a shit about police violence. It will never affect you. What you are is a fucking fascist who should never show your face in public again.
