mekka okereke Jan 9, 2023

🤔Why did Brazil arrest 400 insurrectionists on the same day as the insurrection? Degree of difficulty very low! Unimpressive!

Why didn't their security force just let the insurrectionists walk away, and then wait for unpaid volunteer anti-fascist groups to painstakingly build their cases for them through video analysis and online detective work, and then only arrest a fraction of the violent people over a year later with some light charges? Degree of difficulty:10/10! Now that's impressive!🦅🇺🇲

Show threadverb (printfJess) 🦄Jan 9, 2023

@mekkaokereke Because sometimes it's better to let the perp walk so you don't die and and can continue gathering intel from them?

That and capacity for holding?

Idk everything is a fucking mess? Never should have happened?

Just awful, all ways.
Never should have happened.

Show threadmekka okereke Jan 9, 2023
@verb 🤔Walk for a year? And as I pointed out, most of the "Intel" was gathered by online anti-fascists, and so embarrassingly obvious that the authorities had to bring charges. I really don't think folks realize how much *high definition footage* authorities already have of the capital building, and most of DC. And they have civil liberties abusing Patriot Acts and other terrible surveillance laws. What are those laws for if not for this? Oh yeah, locking up Black folk.
Show threadmekka okereke 

@verb And "capacity for holding" is not a credible statement.

We have over a million US citizens locked up pre-trial for non-violent offenses. We found capacity for them. We found capacity for BLM protesters. We found capacity for migrant children and their families.

We only talk about capacity issues when things like this happen.

This is not an argument for increasing prison capacity. This is pointing out that the right to protest isn't real if it's applied so differently based on race.

Jan 9, 2023 at 3:17pmWeb
Show threadverb (printfJess) 🦄Jan 10, 2023
@mekkaokereke Hey. Sorry I thought we were talking about Brazil. Didn't realise you were referring to the US. Very different story there, I agree.