Police officer ignorantly and aggressively detained autistic boy who was just stimming

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Drumbeat of constant authoritarian violence.

Fresno cops execute unarmed teen

If I was making unsupported guesses, I’d say possibly high and scared of being caught with drugs. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he had a bag of weed or somesuch in his hand. But I don’t make those unsupported guesses, because I wasn’t there, I don’t know, and because premature speculation about these things rarely leads to anything other than slandering the victim and excusing the murderers. And, more importantly, because: Intoxication. Nervousness. Deafness. Mental illness. Not spe…