• caboose2006@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    It does. Armed peaceful protesters don’t get hassled by the police. These are armed peaceful protesters and they were not hassled. It worked for the black panthers. Cops only brutalize the weak.

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      6 months ago

      Well I’m not sure it worked that well for Fred Hampton or the MOVE guys.

      There’s always a danger of escalation, and the boys in blue have no upper limit.

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      6 months ago

      Armed peaceful protesters don’t get hassled by the police.

      There were quite a few shoot outs between panthers and cops, no? Some even argue that the increasing use of “swat” was, in part, because of black panthers.

      Again, I’m not speaking out against armed groups, but it seems a bit romantized to say “armed protesters don’t get hasseled”…

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      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure there are some statistics on the mental profiles of cops the people who end up becoming them being people who enjoy power.