Downtown L.A., June 2025. Protesters fill the streets after mass ICE raids tear through immigrant neighborhoods. LAPD fire over 600 rounds—rubber bullets, tear gas, bean bags. Marines patrol the city. And still, they call it peacekeeping. Still, they call it order.
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Image: Protesters clash with police downtown near a VA outpatient clinic. (Luke Johnson / LA Times).
A road cuts through what used to be a neighborhood. Concrete spills from gutted apartments. Wires hang loose like veins. A single building leans like it’s trying to stand. Three small figures walk down the middle—no destination.
Entire families buried beneath what was once home. Walls turned to dust. Lives turned to statistics.
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Image: Aerial view of Palestinians walking past destroyed houses in the Gaza Strip’s Jabalia refugee camp, February 2024/Reuters.
And still, they say: this is defense. Still, they say: they seek peace. And those who bury their children are named the enemy.
Image: Protester lays prostrate surrounded by heavily armed LAPD. (Luke Johnson / LA Times).
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Mason, John. A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable Taking of Their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1869. Originally written in 1677. Source: https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofpe00maso/page/n8/mode/1up
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More Primary Sources
PBS NewsHour. “Cleveland Police Forced Tamir Rice’s Sister to the Ground, Footage Reveals.” PBS NewsHour, January 8 2015.. Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cleveland-police-forced-tamir-rices-sister-ground-footage-reveals
LA Times Staff, “How L.A. Law Enforcement Got Pulled into Trump’s Immigration Fight,” LA Times, Source:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-10/lapd-sheriffs-department-immigration-protests
Nidal Al‑Mughrabi, “Israeli Strikes Kill 33 People in Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza, Medics Say,” Reuters, October 18, 2024, accessed June 22, 2025, Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sends-more-troops-into-north-gaza-deepens-raid-2024-10-18/
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According to new security footage released Thursday, Cleveland police handcuffed the 14-year-old sister of Tamir Rice and kept her nearby in a patrol car after a police officer shot the boy within seconds of arriving to the scene.
The sad fact is that we're a violent species, and as violent as things are at the moment they aren't a patch on the violence we have historically meted out against each other.
Don't misunderstand me, I know there are peaceful, kind humans out there, but violence wins out every single time and the sooner those of us in the "merciful" camp, per the attached quote, acknowledge this fact the better.
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A Brief History of the #Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable Taking of Their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1869. ⭕Originally written in 1677
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@Deglassco they love to hide their crimes behind misuse of words, re-framing, and what-about-ism. Tools to distract, deny and deflect from the crime they commit.
and they are crimes. They will use words to try to avoid accountability in the pursuit of power.
Fuck those assholes. All of them. Fuck them all. :(
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