Proof of CS gas deployment by federal officers in #Portland last night: https://twitter.com/LindseyPSmith7/status/1284022291248996353
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Here’s some of what was shot just now.
Remarkable footage of protestors confronting bicycle police in #Chicago this evening chanting "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?"
https://twitter.com/DominicGwinn/status/1284285480587206658
https://twitter.com/DominicGwinn/status/1284285480587206658
https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/07/18/18-year-old-activist-had-teeth-knocked-out-by-police-at-columbus-statue-protest-alderman-state-senator-say/
“Alderman Taylor said watching video of the attack horrified her. Taylor’s daughter is good friends with Boyd, who could not be reached for comment Friday night. “I’m going to tell you right now, if this was my kid — and Miracle is one of mine — I would burn this city to the ground,” Taylor said. “You beat people up over a statue? You rough them up over a statue? They’re so busy protecting white supremacy, they’re so busy protecting a Christopher Columbus statue that they beat her.”
^^^That's a quote from an elected official 👀
“Alderman Taylor said watching video of the attack horrified her. Taylor’s daughter is good friends with Boyd, who could not be reached for comment Friday night. “I’m going to tell you right now, if this was my kid — and Miracle is one of mine — I would burn this city to the ground,” Taylor said. “You beat people up over a statue? You rough them up over a statue? They’re so busy protecting white supremacy, they’re so busy protecting a Christopher Columbus statue that they beat her.”
^^^That's a quote from an elected official 👀
Block Club Chicago
18-Year-Old Activist Had Teeth Knocked Out By Police At Columbus Statue Protest, Officials Say
GRANT PARK — An 18-year-old activist who had just spoken to a crowd protesting at the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park had several front teeth knocked out by a Chicago Police officer Friday evening, according to video and multiple elected officials.…
Sara Robinson, who documented this history in 2012, concluded, “We’re now living in an America where rampant inequality is accepted, even celebrated. Torture and extrajudicial killing have been reinstated, with no due process required. The wealthy and powerful are free to abuse employees, break laws, destroy the commons, and crash the economy — without ever being held to account.” Under this regime, the rich continually grow richer and the poor poorer, while the middle class grows steadily more insecure, demoralized, angry and often resentful. The rich feed white working-class and middle-class resentment by arguing that the government is taking white people’s “hard-earned money” and handing it to “undeserving” people of color. By this means, the rich convince many working-class whites to oppose social welfare programs and thus harm their own economic interests.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-gop-southern-strategy-shows-how-white-supremacy-fuels-class-exploitation/
https://truthout.org/articles/the-gop-southern-strategy-shows-how-white-supremacy-fuels-class-exploitation/
Truthout
The GOP's “Southern Strategy” Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class Exploitation
A deliberately created racial hierarchy makes poor whites align with the superrich against their own interests.
Various protesters in Portland are reaching out to us and are asking that people living close to Portland come there for solidarity and resistance against the tyrannical actions of the United States government.
Be careful that the United States government is most likely acting illegally and outside their jurisdiction in Portland. The US government and DHS have upped the ante of protesting, but this is exactly what the original documents of the constitution warned us about.
Don't let them succeed in vanishing people from the streets.
Be careful that the United States government is most likely acting illegally and outside their jurisdiction in Portland. The US government and DHS have upped the ante of protesting, but this is exactly what the original documents of the constitution warned us about.
Don't let them succeed in vanishing people from the streets.
Portlanders, it's time to demand that your mayor and governor require law enforcement (local and state), to act as a defense against federal agents kidnapping your friends and family. It's time to tell them to defend the protesters and everyone else - not continue their battles with the protesters.
Demand that the police be required to police the feds, not the protesters.
Demand that the police be required to police the feds, not the protesters.
Forwarded from Washington DC BLM Protests
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#SayTheirNames #BlackLivesMatter #BreonnaTaylor #KorrynGaines #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatterPlaza #DCProtests https://t.co/lnKH3nDEQW