Shit. That looked horrifying. And the cops just stood by and let it happen. 
Of course they did.
It just never stops being a huge, heartbreaking disappointment.
I guess we should be conditioned by now to count it as a win that they didnât join the fray and kill her.
This is what the Hate Tourists do. They isolate vulnerable people and cause them harm. Iâm glad the woman who was attacked is pursuing charges, and that there are photos as evidence and to identify her attackers. Too often, none of those conditions are true and they get away with it.
Police say Stepanek became enraged when he was stopped behind other vehicles after protesters blocked an intersection. He honked his horn then made a U-turn, squealing his tires to turn around.
Then, he shut off his lights, drove around the block, and turned onto a downtown street where there were no vehicles between him and the protesters, police say. Video shows his car striking multiple protesters, dragging one on his hood, before speeding off.
Thank you Dr. Wills.
Your analysis is 
and very +1:
We need to stop imagining the Jan 6 fascists are purely âbrainwashed,â misguided, etc. Neither are they guided by white supremacy only.
They are largely a vanguard of principled petty bourgeois reactionaries who oppose democracy whether in its mass/working-class or liberal bourgeois form. They have allies in the most conservative and reactionary corners of the âbigâ bourgeoisie.
They see through a funhouse mirror the hypocrisy of liberal bourgeois democracy (no, the electoral college is not âsacredâ
). They also vehemently abhor the capacity of true democracyâsocialismâto liberate oppressed, exploited workers upon whom their precarious fortunes depend.
To the extent liberal bourgeois democracy engages mass politics and gives even a highly attenuated and mostly suppressed voice to the working masses, that section of the petty bourgeoisie which turns to fascism regards liberal democracy as a betrayal. Only capital should speak.
The woman who died attacking the Capitol Building was a small business owner from San Diego. Yes, her head was full of conspiracist nonsense but she didnât just invent that lockdowns and worker protections might save lives but hurt her bottom line.
These people made calculated, self-serving, and terrifyingly clear-eyed decisions to destroy liberal bourgeois democracy on the basis that they deem it incapable of reliably serving its function of subduing the masses and putting capital before human life.
For them, the lockdowns, the rise of BLM protest, and the electoral repudiation of Trump which occured in large part due to Black voters all demonstrate clearly that America isnât working like itâs âsupposedâ to.
We tend to think of the wacky nonsense in fascistsâ heads as a cause for their behavior but itâs frequently a consequence of their aims. To value living human beings so cheaply requires a flight from reason. A whole ecosystem of conspiracy and superstition swells up to enable it.
Fuckin Aye.
Greate video 
This MoJo article from this morning is very much in line with the last quote about there being no reason to follow the rules if there are no consequences for breaking them.
Its a long list of times that NY taxpayers paid large sums of money for NYPD settlements for unprovoked violence, but the cops saw no punishment. "In the 45 cases we examined, the harshest penalty any officer received was a loss of 15 vacation days."
Surprise, surprise. /s
I posted this somewhere else, but at the recent rally turned riots, more officers were injured than people were arrested during the event. Compared to any event where people are demonstrating in favor of equality, and itâs stark.
