I’m having trouble finding info about how many people the pigs killed, or died of wounds inflicted by them or counter protestors. Or how many became disabled.
That’s because the authoritarian USian regime censors information about police repression
Last I heard, the number was still rising as the chemical rounds they fired onto the civilian population lead to miscarriages, asthma, pneumonia, covid complications, and more.
I don’t think we’ll ever know. Maybe someone will try to piece it together decdades from now, but I’ve never seen an attempt to tally all the death and the official regime line is that one man was killed and it’s okay bc
We know at minimum a thousand people were murdered by police because at minimum a thousand people are murdered by police every year. So that’s the base line for how many people were killed by security forces over teh course of hte year.
Finding the amount of people who became disabled might be impossible, one specific person I remember was a journalist whose eye needed to be removed after being hit with a less lethal projectile
There was that one white woman who sat outside a target? Stabbing people who looted as they came out and she got a few but I dont think they were that bad
Kyle Rittenhouse shot Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, Gaige Grosskreutz in a Black Lives Matter protest that year (in a way they were all connected to George Floyd that year). Only Grosskreutz survived
Capital Hill Occupied Protest shot 2 Black teens, killing one
It might have been connected to something else that year but there was a security guard who killed someone and a bunch of videos were going around. The guard yelled “fuck around and find out” before pulling the trigger
one specific person I remember was a journalist whose eye needed to be removed after being hit with a less lethal projectile she is dead or dying due to yearslong complications from this.
and she wasn’t the only one hit in the eye, let alone elsewhere, with tear gas, etc.
there were also some suspicious deaths linked to business owners firing on supposed looters iirc. evidence destroyed by fire.
Oh I was thinking of someone other than her, the person I was thinking of was a blond man who actually maybe wasn’t a journalist?
I wish Grosskreutz managed to shoot before Shittenhouse did.
There’s things that are hard to tally. The police blockaded my neighborhood for months and refused to allow emergency medical services in. No ambulances. Some bullshit about it not being safe for EMS. We had to drive people to the hospital in cars. Did anyone die because they didn’t get treatment? Fuck if I know.
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
—Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845
I really like Engels style!
Almost all the murders were committed by pro cop reactionaries (think the only exceptions were Michael Reinhold used lethal force in self defense against a proud boy and someone else mentioned the biker chud that got lit up by a security guard).
Police injured tens of thousands (rubber bullets into eyes and groins, tear gas canisters to heads, sound weapons, batons, etc).
How do you know it was protests-related deaths and not just “natural” levels social murder that took place like brutal police violence and a regular daily occurrence mass shootings?
Lets count it like the Hong Kong protests and include any suicide or accident in the same time frame, and say it was like 8,000
weird how they don’t list property damage as a victim in the protests in bad country
The two real ones were the guy the rioters killed with a brick, and the one that accidentally fell out of the parking garage right?
That miasma of tear gas covering whole neighborhoods? Oh, it just did that. Don’t blame us for kids getting sent to the hospital.
