Thread by @MacSmiff

Very much bothered that when Black people get shot and/or murdered in the Pacific Northwest by police and other angry white men, there is no national reaction.

Keep yelling that our lives matter though. #JustAnotherHashtag

Kevin Peterson was murdered barely a month ago. Before sundown, the police were already spreading lies that they had returned fire. By nightfall, they had riot crews at the ready.

Chuds immediately injected themselves in the narrative, making it about them instead of the cops.

When Aidan was killed 9 days ago, the local news shouted out the shooter's Go Fund Me and said that Aidan was shot during an argument over his loud music while hiding the race of the deceased teen.

Police now say they aren't sure there was music. They just believed the murderer.

News of the police shooting in Eugene just days ago followed a similar pattern of the police releasing only unverified information that appears to justify use of force but very little details about the force used or the race of the suspect. Then the press reports it as gospel.

We could also just glance over the fact that VPD shot somebody on Thanksgiving whom by all accounts it seems was having a mental breakdown.

This all is after a summer where police logged some 2,500 uses of force against ppl protesting violence and failed to log another 7,500.

People have been assaulted, kidnapped, shot and/or tear gassed in Eugene, Salem, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle and Lacey by the same people who continue to shoot us dead and their answer is, "OK, you've made your point. Let's go back to 'normal' now."

NORMAL?

Media loves to point out the irony in America's whitest big city becoming the "epicenter" of the BLM protests, but rarely points out the obvious reality that Portland has always used politics and policing to maintain that title.

Racism IS the institution.