Ask Lemmy

In Minneapolis at least one police station was burned down, as well as some commercial buildings. But what is interesting to me is the degree of lethality law enforcement tends to resort to during even peaceful protests.

What I thought was interesting in Portland were the DHS Stormtroopers / LGMs abducting protestors without identifying themselves or their purpose, which figured into to escalation of the protests around the ICE building.

So yes, I'm expecting either white power militant groups or law enforcement, masked up and without identifying marks to conduct raids on minority neighborhoods and community buildings associated with left-aligned organizations like BLM.

That or law enforcement accelerates its usual overpolicing of non-white neighborhoods and covers larger regions until the people can't stand it anymore and start organizing resistance efforts. In Nazi-occupied Paris, it was the brutality of the German occupation that compelled Parisians to fight back. La Résistance evolved from independent mischief-makers to a formidable fighting force across three years.

But you're right, if it's just protests and OWS style campouts, and the police don't misbehave too much, it's not going to be much of a civil war. But so far, we can count on the police getting their murder on when they feel the civil unrest doesn't respect their authority enough. And unlike Ferguson (or the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s) smartphones with cameras are ubiquitous, so they can't deny when they pull a hit like Tamir Rice.