maybe its actually a recognition that the police exist not to protect human life, but to protect the profits of massive corporations like target that steal the surplus value of workers and gouge consumers in a time of global plague, and the insanity of that can be borne no longer https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1265834328820342784

when the state's monopoly on violence, which it uses to protect private property, is no longer seen as legitimate (because it is murderous and arbitrary), then people rightly say "why am I respecting the law, which is written to render my life expendable and profits sacred?"

they say, I am laid off because my government is dithering while a hundred thousand die in a pandemic, they are not supporting us in the highest unemployment since the great depression. There is no social contract. I'm gonna get what I need. Good for them.

That's exactly what they fucking should say