Ah right, also I had something very similar to this video happen to me when observing officers INSIDE my apartment complex harassing my latino neighbor who was just a young guy practically a kid living with his girlfriend who was super chill. When I schooled them on our civil liberties and started filming they got real uncomfortable and then the kid thanked me after they left. They were definintely gonna do some pig shit and this is in a similarly “progressive” california college town.
This was during the riots too which is why I went out of my way to put myself between them, cuz I had just been seeing so much police brutality I figured I had to do it or it would be a betrayal of all of my principles.
That’s lucky for him you were there to do that, you never know what could have happened. It was stuff like people doing that and all the ‘normies’ coming out to support the serious people on the street that gave me a lot of hope for things in spite of all the horrors of the time. I am an anxious person and typically stay home, but I and the people I knew were so compelled to do something it wasn’t a choice, I was thankful to be in a city where I could join with others.
Many people that participated consistently and with fervor were young and inexperienced, I know most haven’t forgotten that and will have only gotten more serious since then.
Yeah I luckily have a lot of neighbors that would have backed me up if shit got heated. The cops were in hostile territory and still acting so damn confident.
Ah right, also I had something very similar to this video happen to me when observing officers INSIDE my apartment complex harassing my latino neighbor who was just a young guy practically a kid living with his girlfriend who was super chill. When I schooled them on our civil liberties and started filming they got real uncomfortable and then the kid thanked me after they left. They were definintely gonna do some pig shit and this is in a similarly “progressive” california college town.
This was during the riots too which is why I went out of my way to put myself between them, cuz I had just been seeing so much police brutality I figured I had to do it or it would be a betrayal of all of my principles.
That’s lucky for him you were there to do that, you never know what could have happened. It was stuff like people doing that and all the ‘normies’ coming out to support the serious people on the street that gave me a lot of hope for things in spite of all the horrors of the time. I am an anxious person and typically stay home, but I and the people I knew were so compelled to do something it wasn’t a choice, I was thankful to be in a city where I could join with others.
Many people that participated consistently and with fervor were young and inexperienced, I know most haven’t forgotten that and will have only gotten more serious since then.
Yeah I luckily have a lot of neighbors that would have backed me up if shit got heated. The cops were in hostile territory and still acting so damn confident.