When you train cops for hostile crowd control & buy them oversized military weapons designed for hostile crowd control, they get *pumped up to do hostile crowd control*. They're excited for this; it's what they've been preparing for.
None of their training or skills are around de-escalation and they don't really *want* to de-escalate, as images from around the country are illustrating. This is The Show for them, the big moment where they get to show how tough they are. Why would they want to avert it?
"Urban warfare." They are so pumped for this.
It's the police escalating, in city after city.
How many times will military combat units be called to domestic protests before it starts seeming routine & normal? How long until they start shooting?
Military vehicles rolling through American streets, intimidating civilians. Imagine what you'd think if you saw it happening in another country.
If the cops simply hadn't shown up at these protests, would there have been more violence or less?
A compilation of state violence against people protesting injustice.
Military testosterone and military weapons, without the military training or military discipline.
Seattle bike cops are riding around picking fights with protestors. Is this the de-escalation training you were referring to, @speechboy71?
"Peacekeeping."
The best way to understand police behavior over the last 72 hours or so: they are counter-protestors. vox.com/2020/6/1/21276…
Police deliberately setting up a situation in which violence & injury are inevitable.
Violence on peaceful protestors in service of Dear Leader's image. What would you say if you saw this unfolding in another country? vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Violence against journalists. vox.com/identities/202…
Cruelty and domination are the point.
Police brutality is not an accident or an anomaly perpetrated by "bad apples." It is a direct & deliberate outcome of the way the system is designed. Don't miss @LawProfButler interviewed by @seanilling. vox.com/identities/202…
Cruelty and domination are the point.
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Scroll through this mega-thread of police violence & tell me about "bad apples."
