Not surprising at all, there's been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don't just become monsters overnight. They've been trained over the years to behave this way.
Bodycams are making a lot more of these available now too. Saw a brutal one where cops paralyze a handcuffed guy by breaking his neck, then they sit prop him up in a sitting position and complain that hes uncooperative because won't move.
That was a year ago, the dude is dead and the cops got off scott free.
It makes it more available to view, but it hardly does anything to prevent it from being done because the cops face no consequences regardless usually.
The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I've ever seen.
looking at how even the horses are disobeying being forced to harm people - we can conclude that calling cops animals is not appropriate - ghouls and psychopaths seems more adequate but don't let me stop you from listing all other fitting names you can think of:
Watched this live all day at work. So much of this shit went on. The whole thing with CHP trapped under the overpasses was set up to be a massacre, but the protestors didn't kill them.
No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.
It seems to me like they are attempting to get protestors to escalate. After a martyr, the mental gymnastics and justifications will spiral with a blinding speed.
They’re hoping for bloodshed on the side of police or military, it’s their ticket to ride. They can do whatever they want once they establish the civilian populace as a threat to military personnel. These guys are little more than sacrificial pawns as far as the administration is concerned, they’re hoping that at least one of them meets a violent enough end so they can justify martial law and start unloading on every crowd of protesters.
The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.
You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.
Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.
Thanks for the reading recomendation, will look into it. Yeah, times of crisis are really fast destroyers of lies, such as that the ruling classes would allow the ruled to arm against them. If the propaganda meltdown was in turbo mode after israel started the genocide, a civil conflict inside the us will give it a spaceship engine
That was a lie. The ones who don't like tyranny don't like guns, and the ones who like guns don't actually mind tyranny, so long as it hurts the right people.
And US cops don't wait for protestors to burn a bunch of policemen and try to kill bystanders. But then again, the most prominent organizers ain't CIA so why would they ever do that.
How many of you up in arms now didn't vote to keep that orange fucker out of power?
This is the America you all bought while chortling like retards to TikTok hoes instead of getting your asses into gear and defeating fascism with your vote.
I always know that whenever some shit like this happens the first comments will be dumbass libs reveling in the violence. I'm sorry that you didn't get to pretend it wasn't happening (because your guy/gal did it) and could more comfortably stay in your armchair. But find a way to stay in the armchair you did, by reframing it as "well, I did my duty, not my fault! Bring out the guns and see if they learn their place!".