Jarhyn
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I live in Minneapolis. The last two nights, I've spent on neighborhood watch, in immediate coordination with my neighbors. While all this started with the murder of a black man by a white cop, that's not all there is to it. But this isn't about that.
This is about the fact of who is doing the shooting and the burning and the looting.
Rather, It's about the white nationalists riding around in a red truck dropping explosives and incindiaries off the back of their red pickup truck, and shooting at folks.
It's about the fact that white looters and vandals have already put a building in my neighborhood to the torch
It's about the groups of white people roving around.just south of where I live with high powered high capacity rifles.
It's about the military response, shooting people who are legally on their own porches with "less lethal" rounds that have cracked skulls and blinded reporters.
It's about the fact that in my neighborhood we aren't on the lookout for black folks, it's the white people with out of state (or covered, or absent) license plates that we record and are tracking movements of.
It's about the white person in the clown mask that was roving back alleys near Penn that ran away when confronted.
It's about the fact that the people in my community doing watch rotations are anti-fascist but we are now being labeled as terrorists for simply holding the ideology that fascism is bad and must be resisted.
It's about the fact that I'm going to be out with a fire extinguisher and flame-retardant clothing with armed white nationalists out there who have already fired shots in an attempt to "boogaloo".
It's about the fact that several peaceful protestors, one of which who is an acquaintance of mine, have taken 40mm cannisters from point blank (10 feet) as retaliation for being so bold as to wear goggles rather than allow themselves to be maced while protesting. The only thing that kept her shoulder and/or back from being broken was the fact that her filled backpack broke the impact.
It's about the fact that our president is clearing streets of peaceful protests with violent force so he can have photo shoots in front of a church where people HAD been getting medical care and receiving donations... A photo opportunity with a Bible shamelessly taken, without consent, from the priests that were providing aid at that church.
It's about the fact that cops responded to "rioting" and "looting" reports mere seconds after a white cop-looking motherfucker with a gasmask, likely a St Paul COP was breaking out windows at AutoZone, ground zero for the "rioting".
It is about the fact that MPD allowed over a dozen complaints against the officer that instigated all this with the casual choking of a suspect to go unpunished, including 7 deaths, and when another officer, the one who called for backup, sought to attend the welfare of the "suspect", he was told to stand down.
My city is on fire. None of the people here mourn the burned shell of Wells Fargo; they were and have always been predatory of the people of color in our and other neighborhoods. The people of my community, my new housemate doesn't mourn the burning of the target stores (he was scheduled to start at the lake street target that got burned the first night); the were literally working on pioneering racist profiling and shrinkage measures there.we don't mourn the burning of the third precinct. We don't mourn any of that.
What this is about is the fact that my city, particularly it's police department but also in general, has a white supremecy problem, and the fact that apparently, that makes us all terrorists.
I've never been so proud to be a "terrorist".
This is about the fact of who is doing the shooting and the burning and the looting.
Rather, It's about the white nationalists riding around in a red truck dropping explosives and incindiaries off the back of their red pickup truck, and shooting at folks.
It's about the fact that white looters and vandals have already put a building in my neighborhood to the torch
It's about the groups of white people roving around.just south of where I live with high powered high capacity rifles.
It's about the military response, shooting people who are legally on their own porches with "less lethal" rounds that have cracked skulls and blinded reporters.
It's about the fact that in my neighborhood we aren't on the lookout for black folks, it's the white people with out of state (or covered, or absent) license plates that we record and are tracking movements of.
It's about the white person in the clown mask that was roving back alleys near Penn that ran away when confronted.
It's about the fact that the people in my community doing watch rotations are anti-fascist but we are now being labeled as terrorists for simply holding the ideology that fascism is bad and must be resisted.
It's about the fact that I'm going to be out with a fire extinguisher and flame-retardant clothing with armed white nationalists out there who have already fired shots in an attempt to "boogaloo".
It's about the fact that several peaceful protestors, one of which who is an acquaintance of mine, have taken 40mm cannisters from point blank (10 feet) as retaliation for being so bold as to wear goggles rather than allow themselves to be maced while protesting. The only thing that kept her shoulder and/or back from being broken was the fact that her filled backpack broke the impact.
It's about the fact that our president is clearing streets of peaceful protests with violent force so he can have photo shoots in front of a church where people HAD been getting medical care and receiving donations... A photo opportunity with a Bible shamelessly taken, without consent, from the priests that were providing aid at that church.
It's about the fact that cops responded to "rioting" and "looting" reports mere seconds after a white cop-looking motherfucker with a gasmask, likely a St Paul COP was breaking out windows at AutoZone, ground zero for the "rioting".
It is about the fact that MPD allowed over a dozen complaints against the officer that instigated all this with the casual choking of a suspect to go unpunished, including 7 deaths, and when another officer, the one who called for backup, sought to attend the welfare of the "suspect", he was told to stand down.
My city is on fire. None of the people here mourn the burned shell of Wells Fargo; they were and have always been predatory of the people of color in our and other neighborhoods. The people of my community, my new housemate doesn't mourn the burning of the target stores (he was scheduled to start at the lake street target that got burned the first night); the were literally working on pioneering racist profiling and shrinkage measures there.we don't mourn the burning of the third precinct. We don't mourn any of that.
What this is about is the fact that my city, particularly it's police department but also in general, has a white supremecy problem, and the fact that apparently, that makes us all terrorists.
I've never been so proud to be a "terrorist".