If you’re wondering how dictatorships rise and mass genocide events occur, you’re witnessing it in USA right now.
Much of it has to do with the authoritarian side moving like a high-speed bulldozer while everyone else continually underestimates the magnitude of the threat.
We are now 46 minutes into curfew and no one in Minneapolis seems to have gotten an alert on their phone about the curfew.
I am not sure how the city is expecting people to know about this curfew.
"Emergency Noise Demo at the NWDC in Tacoma, WA happening ASAP. Currently they are up in SeaTac trying to stop the deportation of Victor Jimenez, a 62 year old Mexican immigrant who is blind and has severe diabetes. Drive up to the ICE camp and join protesters now if you can.
Interesting that this unconfirmed allegation from the Police is the headline, and not that anti BLM demonstrators fired live ammo and threw a pipe bomb towards protesters earlier that day.
Former Navy SEAL Louis Garrick Fernbaugh has been identified as the person behind several improvised small bombs that exploded near protesters in Portland on August 8.
https://t.co/KRCPDxeKX1
SPD is now saying 45 arrests total. We are monitoring JILS as best we can. But with that high a number it's easy we will miss things, please contact us if you're friend, fam or crew got nabbed. 🖤🖤
This is Seattle. The person you’re seeing is marked as Converge media. Seattle police is using mace and dye spray - blue paint on their arm - which is used to mark people for later arrest.
Remember that attacking media and medics is a war crime.
#seattleprotests#seattleprotest
If you were in #olywa last night and would like to share your experience, please email [email protected]. (Or, as always, my DMs are open and my direct email is [email protected]). https://t.co/a3ee2siUcE
One thing we wanna mention is opd/wsp/tcs were directly throwing blast balls and tear gas grenades at people, saw multiple people get hit square in the back with a flaming tear gas canister and we had to do some fancy foot work to dodge blast blast exploding directly underfoot