LOLWUT? I am also hoping that there was supposed to be a sarcasm tag, because this is a weird thing to say. I mean, it’s not as if this event wasn’t well documented and corroborated by the press and others - inside and outside the building - it’s not as if we don’t have video and photos of this happening. It’s not as if we haven’t seen numerous videos of police illegally attacking people in their own homes for no reason during the last few days. It’s not as if police in other cities haven’t been trapping protestors in cordons for hour after hour to prevent them from leaving before curfew started, just so they could arrest them out of spite.
Most of what the cops are doing in their response to protests doesn’t make sense, rationally speaking. Because they’re not being rational - they’re engaging in violent displays of dominance, and that means they don’t want people to escape from them, and they certainly don’t want anyone helping them escape. Defying them is the “crime” in their eyes, and they’re happy to waste whatever resources they need to, to terrorize the population into submission.
Although we don’t have to, since like 100 other people also saw what happened, including multiple members of the press.
Similarly, the agent provocateur thing doesn’t make sense, since the end result seems to mainly be that the police looks like psychotic thugs. But that’s the perspective of a liberal who has never felt the need to beat someone into submission.
To the cops, it’s about showing who’s boss, and when that is your goal, a rather lot of this sort of thing makes sense.
I’m curious. What prevented the cops from just forcing the door?
I’m thinking that if I was one of those cops, and I was tooled up and had all my cop buddies there with me, I wouldn’t let a little thing like a locked door get in my way.
They’re murdering people in broad daylight and shooting at the press - at this point they clearly don’t give a fuck, so why let a locked door stand in the way? Were they fearful because they felt maybe the owner was rich?
It’s already gained a foothold, I’m afraid. This wave of violence has given the stramaledetti stronzi all the cover they think they need, which is why they’ve been doing all they can to escalate the violence.
If you have privilege, from skin color or wealth or both, use the heck out of it to protect those with less, or none. If you have any way of helping those in danger, now is the time. Dubey has shown us a powerful example to follow.
It’s one thing for them to murder people of colour on the streets and quite another to break and enter into the multi-million dollar Washington DC townhouse of a white man. They know who they work for – the guard labour may resent and hate him, but as far as they’re concerned he’s still their boss.
Lemme get this straight. . . the police faked a 911 call.
Just one more thing that if the average citizen does it, it’s a crime, but if the cops do it, no problem.
I thought they wanted people off the streets. Nope. They wanted people on the streets so they could brutalize them. How else do you explain their efforts to trick people to come outside.
Unfortunately the cranky ogre inside me thinks Rahul Dubey will now be the focus of intense anger and trolling and organized police fuckery.
According the article, he’s first generation Indian-American. Which of course doesn’t preclude him being white or mixed-race, as India is a multi-ethnic country. But of course whiteness is about perception by the ruling classes as much as heritage, and as you say, he has a nice house, which the police would take notice of. Granted were he black they surely would have invaded the house instead of laying siege to it, but Rahul Dubey is still inspiringly courageous and took an enormous risk to protect the protestors.
I read the twitter thread from one of the women who sheltered with him just before an important work meeting. That was the first time I broke down and cried. All the anger and sadness finally lanced by this beautiful, generous man. This is what gives me hope.
