#police protests

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Police officer fatally shoots man in Madison, Wisconsin, sparking protests

Shooting happened on street in popular neighborhood lined with restaurants, bars, shops and homes

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How Stocks Perform After Major Protests - Schaeffer's Investment Research

Looking at stocks performance in the aftermath of major country-wide protests

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"Are you really a hero if a dog can do your job?"

— Michael Malice, on the police

[equilibriumbound]

The Ignored Factor in Police Brutality: Class

No respectable person denies the existence of racism or police brutality. But I can’t help but consider that the issue of race is being overblown in the same way that the COVID19 panic was overblown, not to mention every other viral phenomenon of the social media era in which we currently live.

Question: has any researcher ever complained about a pattern of police brutality against rich minorities?

We know statistically that white victims of police brutality outnumber black victims. However, as black activists often rebut, whites outnumber minorities in the general population, and black victims of police brutality are disproportionately higher. Fair enough, but there is a critical point missing in most police brutality discussions obsessed with race: poverty is ALSO disproportionately greater in the black community than in the white community. Therefore might status and class be THE REAL ISSUE here rather than race????

Maybe Booker T. Washington understood something in the 19th century still at play here in the 21st century:

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.

This phenomenon is something I’ve highlighted often on this Tumblr: The Shirky Principle.

Divide and conquer, my friends. Maybe, just maybe, poor whites and poor minorities have more in common with each other than they are being told by the media. Maybe the standards of criminality have always been stricter for the poor than for the rich, regardless of skin complexion.

Behold the worst fear of law enforcement, Wall Street, the corporate news media, and the government at large:

“The more laws, the less justice.” — Cicero

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” —Jonathan Swift

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” —Aesop

“A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State.” —Chuang-tzu

“The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.” —Max Stirner

“What are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms?” —Augustine of Hippo

“The state is continually subject to the same sophistry that engrossed the Greek Sophists-namely, that injustice on a vast scale is justice.” —Kierkegaard

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Mayor Ted Wheeler bars Portland police use of loud warning sounds, signals 30-day moratorium on tear gas for protests

By Friday night, the mayor told protesters his team would move to adopt a 30-day moratorium on tear gas, after learning of Seattle's decision earlier in the day.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/06/portlands-mayor-bars-portland-police-use-of-sonic-sound-boom-as-crowd-control-device-comes-under-scrutiny.html

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internet backseat rioters

Forgive me if I’m skeptical  those cheering on property destruction in riots from their computers would feel the same if it was their home or business.

(I ain’t commenting on the protests and riots themselves, each is unique and there are a lot of agendas everywhere on reporting. People saying that blaming destruction on white provocateurs is an attempt to delegitimize black people’s rage; while others say provacateurs are trying to make the protestors look bad and the police look good. I live 2 hours away from major cities and don’t have a driver’s license so I have no first hand experience)

[equilibriumbound]

The chronic abuses by law enforcement and the civilian backlashes are the inevitable consequences of decades long bipartisanship on the issue of “there oughtta be a law…”