1. Good example of high conflict. When asked why she's staying when police have issued a dispersal order, she says "because black lives matter" but I'm guessing that black residents in nearby residences would tell Meghan to go home.
https://twitter.com/maxnesterak/status/1382533728463904768
3. This is what people who live in housing near the Brooklyn Center Police Department have been dealing with for the past 4 nights.
archive.ph/9kq88
archive.ph/9kq88
https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1382528856674824192
4. Going to spell out my criticism since some people are not understanding.
5. This woman is illegally present in a neighborhood in which she doesn’t live.
She certainly looks chill and like she’s not throwing anything at the police but even if she’s not, her presence gives cover to the violent people in the crowd.
She certainly looks chill and like she’s not throwing anything at the police but even if she’s not, her presence gives cover to the violent people in the crowd.
6. She claims that she’s present to support black lives but she talks more about herself and white people’s feelings in the 2 minute clip.
7. If you read the article linked in #3 you’ll learn that among the residents who are suffering are 11-year-old black twin girls who are “on the autism spectrum and sensitive to loud sounds. They spent most of Tuesday night pacing the apartment, hands over their ears.” 😔
8. I do think she comes across as genuine and she may really believe she’s doing something but the reality is that violent protest is unlikely to change anything in Minnesota. (See thread in this quote tweet for research on this.)
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1349537490668027916
9. She’s taking part in high conflict—a conflict which has taken on a life of its own between some activists and law enforcement.
10. The real work of police reform will not be done in violent clashes in the street, it will be done at meetings between law enforcement and community members and in city councils and legislatures.
11. In the meantime, the presence of herself and other protesters who refuse to go home peacefully is resulting in law enforcement efforts to disperse them. People can argue about whether or not this is over policing but if they'd gone home by curfew, this would not be happening.
12. Even if police were not responding with tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber bullets, a crowd of this size is loud. They were screaming, yelling, and blasting music after dark.
13. This is stressful for anyone living nearby, regardless of age, but especially for children, the elderly, and people who are sick and need to be able to rest. It’s not even good for healthy people who need to sleep and get up for work tomorrow.
14. She’s welcome to bring her poster & throw her fist in the air at peaceful protests during the daytime if that makes her feel better but no one out there after curfew is supporting the lives of black people in this neighborhood who are being traumatized by the police response.
15. I specifically cited this as an example of high conflict because of the black & white thinking she exhibits when she says that “the police will never understand—ever, ever." She’s demonized the police and has no conception of what good police think. It is classic us v. them.
16. If you want to learn more about high conflict, see this thread I wrote a few days ago. Change doesn’t happen through the use of one-sided fictional narratives about “the other side”.
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1381417533518053378
17. I stayed up all night on a crafty binge and had a lot of time to think about this. I should have said that it’s not possible for us to judge Meghan as a person from a 2 minute interview clip. Her thoughts on this may be much more complex than the clip implies.
18. But I think when you’re putting the cause before people that should be a warning flag to anyone that they’ve lost the plot.
Of course Brooklyn Center residents want better from their police department. This never should have happened.
Of course Brooklyn Center residents want better from their police department. This never should have happened.
19. But while they’re headed in that direction and waiting for justice, they shouldn’t have to worry that their homes might be vandalized or burned down if a mob of hundreds gets out of control or if police crowd control tactics go awry.
20. They shouldn’t have to have tear gas in their homes. They shouldn’t have to listen to people screaming at the police hours after a child’s bedtime.
21. This doesn’t bring calm, healing, or peace, something which local leaders and law enforcement keep emphasizing needs to happen. Regardless of what people think of their leadership, it’s very clear that most people who live there don’t want this.
22. At last night’s @MinnesotaOSN press briefing, Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington addressed this directly.
23. Harrington said he had been hearing from community members.
“They wanted the peace kept. They wanted the looting to stop—that they did not want to see their city burn. …
“They wanted the peace kept. They wanted the looting to stop—that they did not want to see their city burn. …
24.
… And that they were a bit frustrated that when they’ve tried to have conversations with some of the folks that were there at Brooklyn Center Police Dept, that they didn’t feel like their messages were being listened to or being heard."
… And that they were a bit frustrated that when they’ve tried to have conversations with some of the folks that were there at Brooklyn Center Police Dept, that they didn’t feel like their messages were being listened to or being heard."
25. This quote from Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson at the midnight briefing on Tuesday night speaks to what police understand. And yes, I recognize that these are just words but it’s important for people in leadership to be say this publicly.
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1382572221760221184
26.
“Real changes come when we work together on a topic and not always bumping heads and disagreeing. We all know that we need to be better. We’re going to get better. This stuff [pointing to a table full of objects thrown at law enforcement] does not make anybody better."
“Real changes come when we work together on a topic and not always bumping heads and disagreeing. We all know that we need to be better. We’re going to get better. This stuff [pointing to a table full of objects thrown at law enforcement] does not make anybody better."
27. These were the objects that Sheriff Hutchinson was gesturing at.
Source for quote:
Source for quote:
https://twitter.com/MinnesotaOSN/status/1382200987990032384
28. I just remember this. Forgot how amazing it is. Brooklyn Center PD protesters need a visit from Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms.
“If you care about this city then go home."
“IF YOU WANT CHANGE IN AMERICA, GO AND REGISTER TO VOTE!”
“GO HOME.” 🔥
“If you care about this city then go home."
“IF YOU WANT CHANGE IN AMERICA, GO AND REGISTER TO VOTE!”
“GO HOME.” 🔥
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1268062385773961216
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