Thread by @MintPressNews

"Shallow displays of solidarity... represent the insidious drive to gaslight us into apathy, to bury violence beneath a fleeting veil of showy concern."

"It’s the ultimate abusive relationship: the people and the state..."

by @ActivistEleanor

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#DC cop wears a #facemask bearing the words, #ICantBreathe…still.”
Photo by @ActivistEleanor is an example of #StruggleTheater, where people in power are #Gaslighting us into feeling like will make systemic changes to #policing

mintpressnews.com/black-lives-ma… #protests #PoliceBrutality

#BlackLivesMatter painted on the street means nothing when "DC’s newly proposed budget seeks a 3.3 percent increase in the #MPD budget, totaling $578 million plus $5 million for a new DC jail."
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#PoliceReform #PoliceBrutalityPandemic #PoliceBrutality

"If these shallow displays of solidarity, these vapid theatrics are evidence of anything, it is that the ruling class really wants us to step off the gas."
~@ActivistEleanor

mintpressnews.com/black-lives-ma… #PoliceReform #PoliceBrutalityPandemic #reform #protest2020 #protests2020 #cops