Thread by @MintPressNews

"It was a setup: local #police deliberately engineered a situation in which #protesters would confront each other, tensions would bubble over, and things would turn just #violent enough to call in the bigger guns."
by @JohnW_Whitehead
mintpressnews.com/crackdown-poli… #Fascism #protest

Special Analysis
"#America is approaching another reckoning right now, one that will pit our commitment to freedom principles against a level of fear-mongering that is being used to wreak havoc on everything in its path."
by @JohnW_Whitehead
mintpressnews.com/cancel-culture… #FreeSpeech

#Trump supporters yell at #BlackLivesMatter #protesters from behind the safety of #police, Aug. 1, 2020, in #Yucaipa, Calif. Photo by Christian Monterrosa | AP

#PoliceReform is necessary and unavoidable if we are to have any hope of living in an #America in which freedom means something more than the right to stay alive, but how we reform the system is just as important as getting it done.
by @JohnW_Whitehead
mintpressnews.com/system-is-rigg…