La Chola reminds us reminds us (just in case we’ve forgotten) “Why that police brutality stuff matters”

I think that for violence against women to end, violence on all levels must be questioned, challenged and interrogated–violence on all levels regardless of who is committing it, must stop making sense. Police brutality at protest events matter because it exposes where violence makes sense to us, or where power makes sense to us.

It exposes were victim blaming begins, and exactly how those in positions of power write themselves into power by using victim excuse making (honestly, what threat did the Code Pink woman present to Barak Obama or Hillary Clinton? Why did they need to be “protected” from her? What threat did the flower girl present to our war hero who took a gun in the groin John McCain? Why did he need to be ‘protected’ from her?). Our officials feel they need to be protected from us–and that makes sense to us because we are inherently untrustworthy. We just might be a terrorist or a gun wielding radical. And what would happen if our officials had to deal with that?

We understand and are complicit in perpetuating our own untrustworthiness and guilt.

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