Yep, that’s me. It was my kids, living and protesting on Capitol Hill, who were getting tear-gassed. This normie dad went from “there’s a few bad apples” to “do not ever trust the cops” overnight.

Anyways what got me thinking about all this was the hope that any labor bodies associated with ICE/CBP gestapo need to give em the heave-ho like MLK Labor did
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...and now we've got a socialist mayor! This whole radicalizing process, instigated by police violence, means the centrist candidates rarely get institutional Dem support & have to rely on corporate PAC largesse, putting them & their platforms even further out of step with mainstream lib voters.

Also their egregious violence during the protests radicalized many normie dems who got teargassed, pushing local Legislative District groups to the left (Bernie's candidacy already significantly softened the ground there) which means institutional Dems nowadays endorse the progressive candidates

...then the cop union (SPOG) got kicked out of the regional labor council, which means they lost a large forum for influence, esp the ability to hamstring endorsements of progressive local candidates. There are many ways to force accountability and diminish the influence of bad actors

You too!

I had him on my talk show where he personally apologized to everyone who was at the WTO protests, then put on a Block the Bunker T-shirt 👍🏼

even tho his predecessor Norm Stamper presided over the shameful SPD assault on the WTO protests, he was the only decent SPD chief of the past 30 years (b/c he later apologized, fired bad cops & became a strong voice for reform.) Best & Diaz def the worst imaginable. Gil somewhere in the middle

you think my cartoons aren't 100% accurate? think again
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