the totality of the circumstances

file this one
under actionable items

fig14a serving & protecting the shit out of you

no felony
no assault charge

so lets talk about
authorized use of force
because writing the law
& carrying out its letters
entirely different

"reasonable to kick a hypothetical suspect who was already on the ground"
"the short answer is yes"

oh good
no one wanted to hear the long
answer anyway probably too many
words

heres where it gets good

if a crowd has gathered
get the focal point of this crowd
faster the crowd will dissipate
risk of the suspect getting help from the crowd

dozens of potentially hostile onlookers

looks to me like theyre trying
to make an example

fig14b that nothing to see here bullshit

my untrained eye
counts five squad cars

you cannot bully a community
into compliance
any more than you can one man
not for long
not ethically

that might could be
laws nature
that cooperation
requires coercion
co-opt-ation
of our labor power
requires

brutalizing
its threat
its realization

certainly not saying
the guy is a saint
for beatin up his girlfriend
which he was probably doing
but two wrongs
as they say
dont make a right

& our laughably oxymoronic
justice system
just keeps heaping up
them wrongs

yours for the revolution
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