So many of the lines that people spout about the current uprising in the US are bullshit. The point has been well made that the very same people who recommend peaceful protest instead condemned Kapernick et al. oddly it was JFK who said- “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Or as Martin Luther King, a favorite source of quotations for armchair liberals who like taking things out of context,said- “A riot is the language of the unheard”.
I don’t think people have any idea of the scope of lawless violence that is being directed against the protesters, so I wanted to share this collection of links someone shared on Reddit. I can’t vouch that they’re all accurate, but you can judge for yourself.
Police brutality complications
National Guard shooting people
Rubber bullets splits in half in Journalist’s eye socket
Cop shoves woman to ground, she ends up having a seizure and hospitalized in NYC
A lot of casual unprovoked assault in NYC
Casual car door slam drive-by in NYC
Two Cop SUVs running into/over protesters in Brooklyn
Different angle of the Cop SUVs running into/over protesters in Brooklyn
Casual pepper-spray drive-by in Minneapolis
SWAT in SLC shoving old man walking with a cane to the ground
Aftermath of 9 year old being maced by cop in Seattle
Tear gassing protesters in Fort Wayne
Car windows broken and tased for trying to drive home
Hands up, unarmed, they sic the dog on him(might not be protest related but still relevant)
Shooting paint canisters(?) at people filming on their own porch, Minneapolis
DePonySum 