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Do you see that action by the police as provocation or deterrence?
by golemotron 10y ago
Do you see that action by the police as provocation or deterrence?
- HillRat 10y agoAt the risk of being facile, I think it was an attempt to deter peaceful dissent that provoked violent protest. Like the execution of Louis Antoine, it was worse than a crime -- it was a blunder. Edit: It's also worth noting that Ferguson is a particularly pernicious example: an exclusively white power structure that functioned as a rentier class, using its government monopoly on force to forcibly extract revenue from an impoverished, ethnically-minority and, for voting purposes, transient population. It's like a midcentury European Marxist's fever dream of problematic class relations embedded in a matrix of structural racism.
- Zigurd 10y agoPolice deploy undercover provocateurs in order to discredit protests. At least one at Ferguson was caught on video.