White people are propagandized from the day they’re born to look positively at the police. Also, as in other white supremacist societies, they are afraid if they don’t have the buffer of the cops that the “natives” will rise up and kill them.
Police and military personnel are merely following orders. If they don't do as their superiors tell them, they will be fired. Also probably imprisoned by people who are just following orders.
Practice exercising your rights.
Keep your finger on your phone to be ready to record.
If it’s scary, get the long shots. The people willing to record up close need others farther away to get the longer views for court.
Remind yourself ACAB.
I understand that there's a general "You have to listen to cops" Pavlovian response, but there is a part of me that is very "75 to 150 million people who think the police are overreaching and 1 million cops?"
It's a fantasy, but there might be value in reminding the actual police of the numbers?
Do any of these “enforcers” understand how morally bankrupt their positions are? Will they hesitate to fire bullets into crowds of protestors? This will all go better if some significant portion are willing to discard the badge when the shit hits the fan.
They profit greatly from being cruel. They feel powerful when they’re cruel. Fuck, being cruel got them the only union in the USA which isn’t neutered! Defectors from the evil empire are more of a literary trope than a real world thing.
That can't be true, there are so many anonymous internet accounts talking shit about how they are going to pull ICE agents' masks down, definitely for sure
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Keep your finger on your phone to be ready to record.
If it’s scary, get the long shots. The people willing to record up close need others farther away to get the longer views for court.
Remind yourself ACAB.
It's a fantasy, but there might be value in reminding the actual police of the numbers?
Will they? No.
I kinda wonder if it isn’t happening and just not getting covered.