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US law enforcement has literal centuries of shameful history of infiltrating and spying on politically disfavored activist groups, from trade unionists to suffragists to abolitionists to civil rights advocates to antiwar advocates.
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2017's plan for dozens of paralyzed, wheelchair-using Medicare For All activists to peacefully occupy the capitol begat violent police panic.
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Capitol police flipped over and cuffed paraplegics in wheelchairs for doing sit ins in the capitol for M4A
— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) January 6, 2021
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Next. Watch this video. Presumably minutes earlier of a different angle and section of Capitol. It presents a much more frightening understanding of what they were dealing with. pic.twitter.com/p1UOnmMQEy
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) January 7, 2021
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But Trump doesn't just promise money for cops: his offer is total impunity. Remember when he told police they should deliberately brutalize people during arrests?
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More from Cory Doctorow #BLM
Inside: Criti-Hype; Right to Repair is back for 2021; The free market and rent-seeking; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/pXnzoWKJn2
#Pluralistic
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Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."
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There's a Yom Kippur joke I love: the rabbi and the richest man in town are praying, "Oh Lord, I am nothing, I am nothing!"
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
The synagogue's janitor sees them and joins in: "I am nothing!"
The richest man says to the rabbi: "Look who thinks he's nothing."
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Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?
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2018 was almost the year we won the #RightToRepair.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
Instead, 2018 turned out to be the year we lost #R2R: 20 bills defeated in 20 state houses, and it was mostly @apple's fault.
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The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.
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When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning!
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
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#10yrsago Diane Duane’s crowdfunded publishing experiment finally concludes https://t.co/qsRnZxiL8b
#10yrsago Inside Sukey, the anti-kettling mobile app https://t.co/puGNKw5XgF
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More from Legal
Let me explain what is wrong with that analogy . . . . .
To clarify -- my disagreement is not with those who are pointing out that law enforcement didn't respond with the same level of force and arrests at the capitol as it did during BLM protests.
That comparison deserves to be drawn and it raises some very important questions.
My disagreement is with those who are saying that what happened at the Capitol yesterday is so similar to what happened during protests this summer, that people's reactions ought to be similar--a suggestion that those reacting more strongly now are hypocritical.
Here's one example of someone (a law professor) making the argument. But I've seen it plastered across the site all day, it keeps cropping up in my mentions, and so I want to respond.
Very different reaction then. But kudos to those who\u2019ve consistently condemned riots. I hope, if nothing else, today\u2019s violence means we are all on the same page now. https://t.co/JhWadB80So
— Andy Grewal (@AndyGrewal) January 7, 2021
There are a number of things that distinguish what happened at the Capitol from what happened during BLM protests. The most obvious is the reason that people protested---some protested about factually false claims about election fraud; others about real police shootings.
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In both cases there is a failure to use good judgement, make a valid threat assessment, to match in force to situation, failure to choose to wait for safer and appropriate staff/conditions and to use their time wisely. They also treat 'perp' as more object than human.
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By the way... Rochester is near Buffalo - where this happened...