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[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren't looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it

[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!

[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE

2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents

27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal

31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025

11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028

https://thebad.website/comic/vanilla_ice

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[–] bossito@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's a bad example precisely because people did come out for George Floyd. What all these cases have in common is video evidence. A next one should not be acceptable, that's a defeating attitude right there.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

George Floyd was famously a movement for Black Lives Matter, and there was no suggestion of general strike

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There was also no absolute systemic instability at that point. the seeds of it were there, but there was still hope to change the system.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 6 hours ago

There was hope to change the system until they started killing white people, suddenly reform is out of the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you reached that conclusion, but some people did decades ago already, and it's good to follow the advice of those who got to the right conclusion before you