“US border patrol has REPORTED 10,000 deaths since 1994…but local rights groups at the border believe the number could be up to 80,000.”
“US border patrol has REPORTED 10,000 deaths since 1994…but local rights groups at the border believe the number could be up to 80,000.”
"woman survived five gunshots from Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged then cleared, wants judge’s permission to share records showing how feds respond when agents use deadly force.
DHS overdrive claiming she was threat to agents merely defending themselves.
"woman survived five gunshots from Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged then cleared, wants judge’s permission to share records showing how feds respond when agents use deadly force.
DHS overdrive claiming she was threat to agents merely defending themselves.
It isn’t enough. Those types of reforms make the violence easier to witness (from a far away position of privilege), but they don’t actually make it stop.
It isn’t enough. Those types of reforms make the violence easier to witness (from a far away position of privilege), but they don’t actually make it stop.
And YES. Anything you saw people in power do in response to those movements? Those are the red flags of symbolic compliance.
We need big structural changes that would fundamentally make our society less violent and more equal.
And YES. Anything you saw people in power do in response to those movements? Those are the red flags of symbolic compliance.
We need big structural changes that would fundamentally make our society less violent and more equal.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
It’s also that people duped by the symbols will switch sides to defend the oppressor, emboldening them to become more violent and violate more civil rights than before.
It’s also that people duped by the symbols will switch sides to defend the oppressor, emboldening them to become more violent and violate more civil rights than before.