• mobius_slip@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I was involved in the BLM protests of 2021. The cops were legitimately pulling people off the street into unmarked, black vans. Some of the people that were grabbed were not even involved in the protests, they were just outside past the citywide curfew.

    I had heard about this happening in Oregon and Washington through the ever reliable internet, but I didn’t actually believe it until I saw it happen in my moderately sized Midwestern city.

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      2 years ago

      And yet they let a bunch of reactionary fascists storm the capitol with minimal resistance.

      • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, about that… let’s talk about a conspiracy theory. I remember reading, I think on Twitter, either just before, or maybe it was a retweet after the fact, someone local to DC saying that the security that had been established around town (or maybe around the capitol specifically) that day in preparation for the demonstrations was weaker than they had ever seen for any run of the mill event there. This would seem very strange because word was very much out that something was going to go down that day, so one would have expected a much higher level of security to have been established. Although I didn’t look very closely into what happened that day and the days surrounding it, it still seems strange that I’ve never heard this discussed since I read it.

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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        2 years ago

        They fucking shot people on their own porches. They fucking arrested a journalist just standing doing nothing live on the air.