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My kids returned safely home from protesting in Boston - but things got bad. The demonstration itself was completely peaceful. Towards the end, a small number of people (white) started shouting at police and lobbing water bottles. Police were restrained. But as the rally ended /1
and they tried to make their way out of the park on foot, they discovered police had cut off exits, blocked side streets, and formed human barriers, effectively trapping people in the park. They fired off tear gas canisters and moved in from multiple directions in phalanx /2
formations to punch, kick, and pepper spray indiscriminately. It was well-coordinated and not in response to any violence it vandalism. It was calculated to actually *prevent* people from leaving and to inflict damage in as many people as possible. This is what has been /3
happening in city after city, accepts the country. Curfew times suddenly set forward by hours with as little as 15 minutes notice, leaving people unable to comply and cops them moving in to assault and pepper spray citizens. Suddenly attacks by a wall of cops on peaceful /4
Demonstrators. This is calculated and coordinated. Nationwide, the police response to protests against police brutality, has been . . . increased brutality. They *mean*to hurt us. They *want* to hurt us. They want us afraid. They are targeting journalists /5
and those are not mistaken identity or misunderstandings or a failure on the part of journalists to present their credentials. They are not collateral damage - they are targets. While our "president" shelters in a bunker, he's sent a clear message to police that they have /6
his endorsement - and I would argue, *specific orders* - to brutalize American citizens and our press. Meanwhile, he's signalled to white supremacist groups and individuals, to provoke violence, *commit* violence, and damage property and trust a terrorized press /7
to adopt his narrative that Black people and "leftists" are committing these crimes. The right has been jerking-off to fantasies of a race war for decades and white supremacists have been using the years since the FBI first reported on it to infiltrate law enforcement /8
at all levels. They are now dug in and they have prepared for this. We are no longer dealing with the usual, historic police brutality, but something else entirely - warfare. They are waging war on Americans. Perhaps this was always Putin's end-game to installing his puppet. /9
They can see the writing on the wall: with over 100,000 Americans dead with no end in sight, and the economy in shambles, Trump will not be reelected. Not in an actual election. So the final act of Trump's horror show is to ignite civil war. MAGA. /fin.
