and though those two are particularly valuable, the people who do the best job of providing news that doesn't put protesters in danger tend to just be anti-fascist activists livetweeting what's happening from the ground
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the entire framing of McCoy's WaPo piece attempts to undermine the fact that anti-fascists & the people of Charlottesville in particular have every reason to identify the police with fascists and white supremacists
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last week, the cops of Portland protected white supremacists who came in from out of state to gather and terrorize that community. they assaulted the people who came out to side against racism. they nearly killed somebody by shooting a flashbang grenade into the back of his head.
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if he hadn't been wearing a helmet, he'd have died. the Nazis and assorted other racists and bigots who were bussed in from across the border with Washington faced no such ill treatment; the cops wear kid gloves when they deal with Nazis.
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literally the day after an anti-racist is shot in the back of the head by a cop and only lives because he is wearing a helmet, the Berkeley police department brags on twitter about the helmets they're confiscating.https://twitter.com/berkeleypolice/status/1026181546808471552 …
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they also dox a group of protesters who they have arrested, but not charged, posting their wallet names and photos to twitter-- a clear attempt to get the community to do the dirty work of harassing leftists for them
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and then a couple of days later the Frontline/ProPublica documentary comes out and we get to see a video compilation that really shows how little the cops of Charlottesville gave a shit about protecting their community from white supremacist agitators
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so it's nice and fresh in all of our minds that last year they stood by and watched-- and this year, they came out in force and terrorized the community
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meanwhile the couple dozen Nazis who came out to terrorize DC were provided with transportation AND so much police protection that their little walking safe space had a cop personally protecting every individual Nazi
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it doesn't take much *trying* to associate cops with racism and fascism. it's a pretty fucking obvious connection to anybody who's been paying attention this WEEK, let alone the past several years
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the good news is that even though twitter is a Nazi-filled hellspace that
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the whole society-wide gaslighting that comes with fascism and the liberal defense of it is just hard. i'm guessing it's probably worse for people who face it more directly than reading bad op-eds as part of their weird robot job
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