Notice how he specifies that it's a "legal arrest". They know they have no legal cause for 99% of arrests of protesters. All their disgusting behavior is intentional/tactical, they know exactly what they're doing, it's literally their job. No "bad apples". #ACAB
Do not forget! We have been on the streets pre-trump and we will continue to be on the streets post-trump. I’m praying for a better president to protest against than what we have now. But the work doesn’t stop no matter who takes office. People power is what will save us.
Idk how many times I have to scream this shit but PLEASE stop assuming everyone bloc'd up is white. Every time one of you clowns yell at bloc for being white anarchists you erase all of the black and brown POC trying to remain anonymous. We're here! I swear! More than you think!
The “close divide” in USA only exists among white people. Every other racial demographic is clear in majority opposition to Trump but white ppl are 70% of US. Again, there’s this constant effort to frame the narrative in ways that avoid examination of white identity politics.
Once again, the Seattle Police Department has outdone themselves, unleashing a violent, unprovoked attack on a group of protesters outside their union headquarters. Their campaign of terror continued late into the night, resulting in organizers being hospitalized and arrested.
Mayor Jenny Durkan held a press conference today in a last-ditched effort to stop the impending vote to defund the Seattle Police Department. She wildly misrepresented the defunding plan, and her role in stifling police accountability.
I felt the need to correct the record.
Streets are literally public property. So are sidewalks but the marchers even stay off of those to avoid being too close to the private properties. Many are marching in their own neighborhood. The Every Day March is *explicitly* against intruding on or damaging private property.
white people made race important as fuck then proceeded to ask us why we make everything about race and that’s why we should collectively beat they ass
This should not even be a conversation?? How can you be okay with someone exercising their LEGAL RIGHT to resist unlawful arrest being later charged for resisting arrest??? #ACAB#BlackLivesMatter#itsnotbroken#itsrigged
I'm bringing a proposal today to cap Seattle police officer pay to $150k/year. Police Officers are some of the highest-paid in the city. This is not an accident, because throughout the history of class society, the class in power makes sure to pay their forces of repression first
They've committed to closing the youth jail. I'm shocked. I'll believe it when I see it, but even this commitment is a huge step and a testament to the *years* of work put in by local organizers, who have given so much to this cause. I teared up a bit. We're really doing it.
@theoChocLab And I think you can agree that this person is not particularly deserving of the benefit of the doubt.
So at best I believe its unuseful, I hope you can see why.
I didn't say anything about the quantity of people who hate Black people enough to do this. The fact of the matter is that every Black person grows up knowing that people want them dead just for existing. And there's no real reason to make light of that fact for our own comfort.
@theoChocLab I see where you're coming from. But the things he says to cover his ass & will be in the report won't reveal his motivations.
It's really not presumptuous for ppl who saw him swerve in order to hit BLM protesters, to posit that it was motivated by the hate we already know exists.