A “federal arrest” is not supposed to include kidnapping people and throwing them into unmarked vans, telling those around that if they follow them they will be shot. That is, in fact, secret police type tactics. Very sobering facts.
I see it differently. I think they lost faith because even when we had a Democratic president for 8 years wealth inequality kept getting worse, a bailout during the economic crisis went mainly to corporations, and the corporatist mythos continued to prevail.
Gov. Mike Parson: “These kids have got to get back to school.... And if they do get COVID-19, which they will — and they will when they go to school — they’re not going to the hospitals.... They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.” buff.ly/2WBb8Ye
That’s got to be some really drunk or stoned #babywitches if they think that in the midst of a #secretpolice invasion of Portland the best they can do is hex the MOON. 🤦🏻♀️
What we've seen in Portland the last few nights—the deployment of federal law enforcement officers to violently target peaceful protest—violates Americans' civil rights and weakens our democracy.
The DOJ and DHS IGs must open an investigation immediately.
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Those of us who want to transform police culture want our neighborhoods be safe as much as you do. Bad police don’t make it safe, however. They make our neighborhoods dangerous.