First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
1d 7h ago by lemmy.world/u/UnderpantsWeevil in politics from www.theatlantic.com
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later.
“They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.”
Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.
Shot and killed while trying to break into a room where lawmakers where sheltering and trying to overthrow the government during the Jan-6 insurection: "She was a patriot!"
Shot and killed while dropping her kids off near an ICE raid: "She deserved it."
Actually, it's first the lies, then the shooting, then the lies again.
And then the pattern repeats until the fascist occupation force and its apparatchiks and other goons are deposed and stripped of all power and influence.
The campaign in Portland started instantly:
Let's see, so a brown person already in their car tried to leave a life threatening situation and was shot for it? Is that a more accurate account of whatever the fuck the state had to say?
Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes for nothing to be done about any of this?
By definition doing nothing is instantaneous, isn't it?
In America? It can take a while.
No, in America doing nothing lasts for a while.
They’ll try the right thing to do once every other option is exhausted.
Adding even more insult to insult and injury, they don't even put any effort into lying. They just re-arrange their set of "MAGA Denial" fridge magnets for each case.