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submitted 2 weeks ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

Did people just memory hole the 2020 riots? We had the police running scared and set fire to a pig station FFS.

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[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago

But what happened as a result? Without a sustained and organized movement, the pigs got more money, not less like everyone was demanding.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

One anecdotal result is no one wants to be a pig anymore. They have more money, but recruitment numbers are so low that various small towns (my home town for instance) had to shutter their local police departments and the county sheriff had to take over.

I've had two coworkers try to get into police academy since 2020, then rapidly change their mind once they started classes. Now granted this isn't sustainable nor is it really a proper function of society, but it at least put something in the water. It let a huge amount of people realize it's culturally permitted to think of the pigs as scumbag murderers.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh, absolutely it wasn't a revolution or anything. But to say nothing is ever attempted is silly. It didn't change much but it did show people that the public can overwhelm police if we work together it wasn't effective but it wasn't pointless imo.

You have to remember also that the left are suppressed with far more force than the right could ever dream of.

A small group of right-wingers were practically escorted into the capitol building on Jan 6, imagine if commies had attempted that.

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Better to have tried and failed than spent even more time waiting for the perfect moment. And let's not pretend a lot of people weren't radicalized against cops

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