Objectively intelligent.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Celebrate Guy Fawkes and the Boston Tea Party, but denounce their modern equivalents? https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/...otests/612466/

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Celebrate Guy Fawkes and the Boston Tea Party, but denounce their modern equivalents? https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/...otests/612466/

Fuckers stole my material.

[Replaced_Texan]

Floyd's family is having a protest here tomorrow. I'm really worried. We saw a convoy of state troopers coming into town yesterday. Houston has been relatively good. Few hundred arrests, someone trampled by a horse, but no use of tear gas or pepper spray or rubber bullets. There are going to be a shit ton of out-of-towners coming to start shit for tomorrow's rally, and then for the funeral on Monday. I'm about a mile and a half from downtown.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Floyd's family is having a protest here tomorrow. I'm really worried. We saw a convoy of state troopers coming into town yesterday. Houston has been relatively good. Few hundred arrests, someone trampled by a horse, but no use of tear gas or pepper spray or rubber bullets. There are going to be a shit ton of out-of-towners coming to start shit for tomorrow's rally, and then for the funeral on Monday. I'm about a mile and a half from downtown.

Was he from Houston?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Was he from Houston?

Yes. He hadn't been in Minneapolis for very long. He was very involved in his church here and is considered a community leader. There are a LOT of people who knew him well. Tomorrow's rally will be pretty big, I think. Local rappers and the family have put it together, and city leaders are involved. I may or may not go. My husband is reluctant as hell. We'll see what happens.

OTOH, this is our police chief. He's been awesome, at least on spec.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

This is pretty solid: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/7...g-book-extract

The reality is that the police exist primarily as a system for managing and even producing inequality by suppressing social movements and tightly managing the behaviours of poor and nonwhite people: those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements. Bayley argues that policing emerged as new political and economic formations developed, producing social upheavals that could no longer be managed by existing private, communal and informal processes. This can be seen in the earliest origins of policing, which were tied to three basic social arrangements of inequality in the 18th century: slavery, colonialism and the control of a new industrial working class. This created what Allan Silver calls a "policed society", in which state power was significantly expanded in the face of social upheavals and demands for justice.

As Kristian Williams points out, "The police represent the point of contact between the coercive apparatus of the state and the lives of its citizens." In the words of Mark Neocleous, police exist to "fabricate social order", but that order rests on systems of exploitation – and when elites feel that this system is at risk, whether from slave revolts, general strikes or crime and rioting in the streets, they rely on the police to control those activities. When possible, the police aggressively and proactively prevent the formation of movements and public expressions of rage, but when necessary they will fall back on brute force. Therefore, while the specific forms that policing takes have changed as the nature of inequality and the forms of resistance to it have shifted over time, the basic function of managing the poor, foreign and nonwhite on behalf of a system of economic and political inequality remains.