Extremely noticeable that cable news spent the early days of protests covering them nonstop while condemning the burning and looting and then stopped covering the ongoing protests once there was no burning and looting
'We would not be giving local police departments who are undertrained a tank if we didn't give the military too much money to have extra damn tanks lying around to begin with' — @AOC
Sunday night: tear gas & flash bangs
Monday night: police leave
Tuesday night: dozens peacefully sit in the street and quietly watch a documentary about systemic racism
#seattleprotests
The police don’t realize their actions and arrogance have been the most effective anti-police campaign we’ve seen. They haven’t adjusted or changed their behavior despite the technology. Just think: All black people are saying is stop killing us. And their response is ...
"I hear you on defunding the police, but what if instead we give the police hundreds of millions more dollars and it will cheer them up so much that they will stop"
After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: "Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice—I can make this much worse for you." In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: "You have no rights here."