Diary (June 1, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Monday June 1, 2020.
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Minneapolis Police shoot peaceful civilians with rubber bullets
Civilian: Well, there's one.
Civilian: Look at this, they just keep coming.
Police Officer: Go home!
PO: Go inside!
PO: Get inside!
PO: Get inside
PO: Get inside!
PO: Get inside!
PO: Get in your house now! Let's go!
PO: Light 'em up.
PO: Go inside now!
PO: Go inside your house!
Get in the house!
[Gunfire]
Civilian: Oh!
PO: Nobody [unintelligible]!
Civilian: Ah!
Civilian: Jesus fucking Christ!
Civilian: Get in get in get in get in get in!
Civilian: Get in!
PO: Stay in your house!
Civilian: Oh, God that hurt!
[Context: User Wanderfound: "The existence of police agent provocateurs is already a well-established fact for anyone who’s had much experience with protests. Whether or not this particular case was a genuine example of that phenomenon really isn’t terribly important at this stage."]
This task is critically important. That’s how I’m treating it, as should be obvious from my comments.
Right now there is a narrative that a particular cop did it, and this is the narrative history remembers if we do not prove otherwise.
This poisons the well. Cops are now more hated and distrusted than ever, and that outcome is catastrophe squared.
If it’s not a cop, that is even worse that if it is a cop, because it means we got played bad, or somehow played ourselves bad. If we can doxxed like this, what next?
I won’t look to you for help, as it’s not really important to you.
- Comment @ Boing Boing