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@mekkaokereke "Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave—and what happens when the two interact. ... disproportionate #PoliceForce is one of the things that can make a peaceful protest not so peaceful. But if we know that (and have known that for decades), why are #police still doing it? " https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/01/why-so-many-police-are-handling-the-protests-wrong 12 comments
 @thierna @mekkaokereke “There’s this failed mindset of ‘if we show force, we’ll deter criminal or unruly activity.’ Show me where that’s worked,” said Scott Thomson, Camden, NJ former police chief. “That's the primal response…adrenaline starts to pump, temperature rises & you want to go one step higher. But what we need to know as professionals is that there are times, if we go one step higher, we are forcing them to go one step higher.” @thierna @mekkaokereke @Cassandra From my point of view, I used to see that point in numbers. Like if there were a lot of police. But now there a lot of armoured police that seem to be looking for a fight. You dont think you could actually harm them, but they look frightenly aggresive. Once you see some peaceful protester hit by riot police, it just creates a more radical response because it is so unfair. @Cassandra police now believe they are invincible and have no issue attacking first. The money we poured into funding them assured that. We have to reverse course. @thierna @mekkaokereke Police forces can now buy (and do buy) realtime geo+profile information from private companies (your phone company is one of many) that would violate the U.S. Constitution if they collected it themselves, but allows them to track PII in real time. (NSA does this illegally 24/7 and doesn't even sweat it any more, now that the 'public furor' is 'over'.) @thierna @mekkaokereke @thierna @mekkaokereke Bullies always try to escalate a situation... @thierna @mekkaokereke ...which is why it is said that remaining "neutral" is being complicit with the aggressor, never the victim.  @thierna @mekkaokereke |
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@thierna @mekkaokereke "why do the fascists who were established for the sole purpose of maintaining white supremacy and protecting the bourgeoisie keep acting like fascist white supremacists uwu"