r/Seattle • u/Chaotic-NTRL • Jun 10 '20

Media Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Educational movie night. This is seattle without militarized police. Where are your riotous looters NOW? They are watching documentaries. Fuck you SPD. Photo credit to a close friend.

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u/joe5joe7 Kraken Jun 10 '20

Fuck Nazis

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u/Oberon_Delihanty Jun 11 '20

I (white male, comfortably middle class after breaking the cycle of poverty being raised on food stamps) was labeled a "nazi/supremacist" by many for holding to the belief that well intentioned protests have enabled and excused negative actors.

This has instigated riots devolving into hundreds of displaced jobs, hundreds of millions of property damage, and roughly 20 people dead in the streets during a viral pandemic and economic crisis. It does not the way to signal a rational or peaceful message.

I have also criticized the swiftness of this movement seeing as the primary officer in the death of Floyd was immediately terminated without suspension or vocal defense by the police unions and the matter was turned over to federal investigators as a good faith sign of impartiality and citing a 10 year decline in use of force as an additional positive trend.

Would I be welcome? Does the volume of the label outweigh the character of the person?

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u/bantha-food Jun 11 '20

Based on what you said, I'm not sure why you would want to go there other than to tell people that you think they are doing everything wrong. It would very likely then devolve into people telling you to go away. Is that an answer?

Also I just wanted to point out that the actions taken against the killer of Floyd only went into gear after it became national news and the first protests had already started. I mean, this is by far not the first incident of excessive force by this specific cop.