I should embed or at least link to the press conference by the Chief of the Kenosha, Wisc., Police Department following the shooting of an unarmed Black man by his cops while the Black man's back was turned towards them and his kids were in his car, followed by the murder of two protesters by a 17-year-old White Boogaloo Boi. But I'm not going to embed or link. I'm too pissed off to take that step, because doing so would mean I would have to see that chief's ugly-ass face and hear his toxic, racist words -- that the protesters took their lives into their own hands being out at night. The shooting that precipitated all this, and the brazen killing of two people by a (and you have to let this sink in) 17-year-old little shit who traveled from Illinois to kill -- and who, by the way, walked past KPD with his rifle after the shootings happened and the police didn't stop him at all (this Boi made it back home before he was arrested)? Not a single fucking peep. (ETA at 1:40 a.m. on August 27 that that's not the case. I [under great threat of self-harm] checked this story about this on Slate and this prick chief actually defended these militant assholes, saying they have a constitutional right to ... um, the story makes it seem as though he thought that right was to protect property, which is not a right enshrined in the Constitution. Anyway, fuck this guy.) Hmmm, why the difference in regarding those two groups, I wonder?
And I still can't get over what happened, and what may still be happening, in Portland. Well, there are continued protests in Portland; I think I saw a tweet that tonight marks 90 consecutive days of protests on the street around the clock. But I have to go back to one night not too long ago. There has been a contingent of counter-protesters. Shit, let's call them Republican terrorists -- Boogaloo Bois, insurrectionists, sovereign citizens, Three Percenters and, if it needs to be said, white supremacists. That group has clashed with protesters. What have the Portland Police Department done about it? Nothing. And that nothing was taken to an extreme this one night. It appears as though this racist counter-protesters went into the crowd of protesters and started beating them while the PPD stood back and did nothing. The fundamental job of police is to keep the peace. And they stood on the streets of Portland with their thumbs up their asses while these White rioters tried to kill peaceful, correct-minded protesters.
I don't know if I have to mention it, but there have been anecdotes that these bigots and the PPD have been friendly with each other. The police's job is not to make friends. So what else can I conclude if they stand back while these Republican terrorists try to kill Black Lives Matter protesters knowing what I know? Well, for one thing, I'm surprised that people who have been entrusted by the community with weapons aren't able to forcefully clear out a street; if cops need to rely on their own band of thugs to do their dirty work for them, they're fucking shitty cops. But let me spell out the obvious: If you let white supremacists be violent and get away with it, you like the violence. You want the violence. And you are as racist as your thug friends are.
The Kenosha Police Department is filled with white supremacists. The Portland Police Department is filled with white supremacists. It's obvious by now. If they do nothing to stop innocent protesters who are exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble from getting harmed or killed by Republican terrorists, they are not incompetent -- they condone racist violence.
With that being established, one has to ask: What do BLM protesters -- people on the street, really -- have to do to defend themselves from these domestic terrorists and the police who protect them and only them? And after seeing what we have seen these past hours and days, would they, would we, not be justified from defending ourselves?
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