I wonder why it is that elected officials and the news talk nonstop about damaged property as ruining a peaceful protests nationwide but they've got nothing to say about the endless footage of police violence against protesters.

If you've got more to say about damaged property than a murdered Black man, you've said all you need to say.

When police are shooting rubber bullets at street medics trying to help protesters who was injured by prior rubber bullet shots, cops are driving and accelerating into crowds, cops are pepper spraying crowds, politicians wanna give protesters a lecture about damaged property?

Nonviolent protest was never what police chiefs and mayors wanna tell us we should be doing.

What they want is people not to fight back, while the police violently repress protests nationwide.

I won't claim to be the ultimate student of the history of movements or anything like that, but what I understood a lot of the most powerful nonviolent protest movements in history to be about was provoking the violent response by those in power on display for all to see

Doesn't matter whether a protest is peaceful or not or damages property or not, police generally get violent when a protest challenges the power systems they are working to uphold and enforce.

I'm not here weighing in on whether I think protesters should or shouldn't break things or pursue strategic nonviolence.

I'm just saying I don't care at all what those in charge of oppressive power systems prefer for how people work to topple those oppressive power systems.

Since this got more attention than expected (1) I'm not breaking shit (2) when I'm at a protest, I ask organizers how I can help, and that's what I do (3) I care about organizers' goals for the protest, not the cops (4) I care about organizers' debrief of the protest not the cops

Anyway stop paying attention to my tweets please and donate to the emergency bail fund established for today's PGH protest: https://venmo.com/PGH-Freedomfund 

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