An anonymous source sent me video of the Portland Police destroying the Chapman houseless encampment during their charge last night Please observe that the street is clear. Would have been easier and faster to go around instead of pausing to destroy homes But they wanted topic.twitter.com/01OStWKvvX
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It's the same impulse that makes cops go after the smallest protesters when they rush. It's the same impulse that makes them go after people they perceive as low status, read: black people
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We do need law enforcement, I believe that. Humans are violent creatures, any society worth living in has to have some mechanism to deal with that But this ain't it. Our mechanism CAUSES violence, it has to go We need to abolish the police and create something better
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There’s so much un-American, inhumane behavior going on right now, that I’m almost embarrassed to call myself an American. This isn’t hyperbole.
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