I don't think this is really a good thing, but it certainly could have been much worse as a set of five to ten Neo-Nazi Pro-Police protestors clashed with about 150 others who were there to criticize and demonstrate against the shooting of two black men by police in Olympia, who were "shoplifting/assault" suspects that were apparently armed with very deadly and pointy "skateboards".
Yeah, that seems like a perfectly good reason to gun two people down. (Both are alive fortunately)
Then this happened.
Before Saturday’s demonstration, members of the white supremacist forum Stormfront had derided “Black Lives Matters” protesters as weak.
“Their arguments are weak. They have no valid points. They are inarticulate, cowardly, and moronic. They are hypocritical and aimless. We are stronger than they are, even with only half their numbers they were too afraid to act on all their disgusting threats of violence and murder,” a white supremacist organizer wrote. “Stand and be counted, the enemy is broken and useless, our time to retake our homeland is nigh.”
However, according to a witness who called The Olympian on Sunday, the white supremacists fled afterwards and some protesters chased them down, damaging several white supremacists’ trucks with metal chairs outside a restaurant.
It was “complete mayhem,” he said.
Yeah, I don't think the video shows those "weak, cowardly or moronic" protesters in exactly that light. Not quite.
If we previously had doubts that there are direct parallels between the ideology of white supremacy and the ideology that blankly justifies and excuses police use of force against pretty much any person of color - now there is no longer any doubt.
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