Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... This. It matters. " Glen Ford says: let's talk about the real threat, an imminent one for the next demonstration. If police can constitute themselves on their own orders--and remember, there's 35,000 of them. They are an army behaving as an army of occupation. If they can constitute their own formations, then what's to stop them from self-assigning 5,000 more cops than are assigned by the commissioner of police to the next demonstration and policing it any way that they see fit? We really are on the verge of a real crisis here. And, of course, we know who the victims would be. They are threatening to take the law into their own hands, to behave as if they are the law. They are showing that the protesters are correct in describing the nature of policing in America as arbitrary, capricious, and racist, and rogue."

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... OT