Add new comment

makes sense. thanks for explaining!

i guess to be clear, im the second anon. i still think cops are one line of defense among others, often the last. but yea not everyone i dont like is a cop. but there are certainly people who want to uphold things or narratives that are repressive that are not cops and i find that that is much harder to confront, because they're quite personal. it becomes important so often in situations where we're fighting the cops (not at some manufactured riot but a mass disturbance) you have those who have some position of authority or fall back on forms of control that are actually more insidious than cops to slow or repress the direction things are headed.

this is from personal experience, if that has any bearing, def not trying to flex at all, i just bring it up because it has heavily influenced my perspective for better or worse and not as some kind clout thing, mostly it just throws me into state of confusion about what it all means to fight.... anyway, to examine the complex dynamics of this is hella important. especially when people are defined as whatever category (black in this case) are going against the wishes of not only the police but also the preachers and activists and of course, the very repressive ideologies of racialization or private property.