It’s worth noting that the National Guard (the military) is in Minnesota at the behest of the police. They are there to ensure police & property, not civilians, are safe. They’ve been weaponized, yet again, against Black people living under this oppressive settler colonial state.
The National Guard is making a decision to uphold & enforce racial capitalism & white supremacy. It’s also unsurprising because this is what they do around the world. The military act as an extension of US police in the global south, upholding & enforcing US imperialism.
The same things police do to us here in the United States, the US military does to Black & Brown people all over the Global South. This should never be ignored and we should always make these connections clear.
The military is a violent occupying force overseas and the police are a violent occupying force in the US. The former (military) ensures that the latter (police) has what they need to suppress any and all rebellions against the social order and to maintain the status quo.
These graphics that @Blacks4Peace put together help explain my previous tweet. The military ensures that US police have what they need to enforce and uphold settler colonialism through the 1033 program that we all should be working to abolish. 
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