Police in riot gear showing up at peaceful protests escalate the situation by creating an antagonistic environment. A line of officers donned in military-style gear standing side-by-side holding batons and shields and guns that fire projectiles. 1/n
The protestors carry cardboard signs and bottles of water. Who are they there for? “We’re here to protect you,” says an officer in riot gear to a tiny girl who asked that the officers please don’t shoot anyone. BULLSHIT. Those police and military are not there to protect...2/n
the protestors. They are there to protect property and to show force. They are there to enforce curfew. By shooting high powered projectiles indiscriminately (protestors have been seriously injured; loss of vision from being hit in the face; loss of the ability to father...3/n
children from being hit in the crotch; brain injury) and by shooting tear gas canisters into the crowd. They are attacking the press for documenting activity (press are EXEMPT). They are attacking medics for rendering aid to injured protestors (medics are EXEMPT). 4/n
Peaceful protest does not mean quiet. It doesn’t not mean there is no movement, no anger, no passion. There is chanting and shouting and crying and singing and yelling and marching and stopping and sitting and laying and marching some more.
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This is just one compilation of what has been happening on the streets of the United States of America. If you saw this happening in another country, you would be horrified. But you watch and think “well they should have gone home” “you get what’s coming” “thank goodness...6/n
the police are there to restore order” I see these videos and images and I want to burn down every precinct in this country. I want every officer who uses his baton to beat a protestor who is fleeing, every officer who shoves a woman onto the ground where she hits her...7/n
head and has a seizure, every officer who shoots tear gas into a car in which sits a pregnant woman, every officer who says ‘light em up’ and shoots marker rounds at people standing on their own front steps, every officer who holds down a black protestor and forces that...8/n
protestor’s hand on a stick to put fingerprints on it, every officer who shoves a old man backwards onto the sidewalk, every officer who drags citizens from their car while beating them with a baton, every officer who continuously shoves a man walking with cane, and every...9/n
officer who doesn’t stop any of this to be fired and blackballed from ever holding a job in law enforcement. You’re canceled. This is America and if you’ve got a hard-on for the 2nd amendment, you best be prepared to get it up for the 1st. 10/n
We the people demand a free press.
We the people demand freedom of peaceful assembly.
Donald Trump and his whole swamp-infested administration are morally bankrupt and they are creaming their pants right now. Old bone spurs Donny is loving this opportunity to use the... 11/n
We the people demand freedom of peaceful assembly.
Donald Trump and his whole swamp-infested administration are morally bankrupt and they are creaming their pants right now. Old bone spurs Donny is loving this opportunity to use the... 11/n
United States military against the citizens of this country. He is actively fomenting division. Fox News is openly running as state media complete with propaganda. You’re being told that antifa is coming to your little sleepy town and they’re going to burn all of your...12/n
businesses on Main Street. It’s a LIE. Antifa is not a singular group. Antifa is an ideology of ANTI-FASCISM, anti-racism, anti-white supremacism. Groups that subscribe to antifa ideologies do exist. Are they participating in these protests and riots? Of course. 13/n
They would stay where the action is, yes? Is your town where the action is? You got some national news crews out there? No, you don’t. So no, they’re not coming for you. They are also not responsible for what happened in North Minneapolis. You may have missed it...14/n
but far from the demonstrations, far from the 3rd precinct, north Minneapolis businesses went up in flames. A common theme from residents, especially those who joined neighborhood and business watch teams: groups of white men. A red truck with no plates seen in north and...15/n
northeast, white men, long guns. Not antifa. Fight me. Make no mistake. The president, AG Barr, and everybody else who is perpetuating this falsehood is doing so purposefully. Fear the enemy. Allow the military into your neighborhood. Demand a curfew. Stop the protests. Be...16/n
silent. Fuck that. It’s too late. George Floyd’s brutal murder has sparked a movement the likes I haven’t seen outside of documentaries and news stories from the 1960s or from the Arab Spring. There is a lot of money filling up funds for projects aimed at dismantling the...17/n
system. Police brutality will no longer be tolerated. As for the Minneapolis police department? I’m of the opinion that we need to do more than clean house. We need a complete teardown. Fire everyone and make them reapply. If the officer has complaints against them, an...18/n
independent review should occur before a decision is made to rehire. Beyond that, I’m doing some research. I’ll be listening to my Black neighbors, my Indigenous neighbors, my Asian neighbors, my Latinx neighbors. 19/n
Oh! And btw this bag of garbage in an ill-fitting suit and too-long tie signed an executive order in the midst of civil unrest when everyone is distracted. No more environmental reviews for major projects. “The order would slash the requirements in a number of landmark...20/n
environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires rigorous environmental review before building new infrastructure like highways or pipelines.” Pay attention folks. This president and...21/n
his administration have been dismantling this country and selling it off for parts. Say goodbye to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Say goodbye to monarch butterflies and migratory birds. Say goodbye to whichever national monument or national park that some company...22/n
wants to frack or drill for oil. It won’t matter which one. It’s all up for grabs. “This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.” ~ Sarah Kendzior
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Register to vote. Get an absentee ballot. Support voting by mail. Anything any government does to make it harder for its citizens to vote goes against the very ideals this country was founded upon. #BlackLivesMatter #EndPoliceBrutalityNow #DemilitarizeThePolice #VoteOutHate /end
@threadreaderapp unroll please. Sorry to anyone that read the whole thread...I had some thoughts and just needed to shoot into the void after deactivating my Facebook ✌🏼
