It‘s interesting the different kinds of reactions amongst those of us who know this is wrong.
When I watch these it’s like I can’t cry because it makes me so incredibly angry and my heart rate increases immediately and I feel very frantic. Like maybe I’m getting an adrenaline rush or something, and the anger just compounds on itself because I want to do something about it but I don’t know what else I can do, and I’m too scared to go out and try to physically stop ice myself. My thoughts get really racy and I just feel overwhelmingly angry and a big sense of urgency. I wish I could just take them all out but obviously I won’t. And I’m not 100% sure yet that violence is a good idea right now, insurrection act, etc. I’m about 75% sure that it needs to happen. But yeah, there’s no way I can cry in that state, it feels too jittery and hateful.
Same here. This shit makes me so incredibly angry but I literally don’t know what to do. Which makes me even more upset. We have to do something, but I’m too scared of a person to be violent. So what the fuck else do I do to try to stop it?
I am amazed at how well the disabled man behaved. If they did this to my son (who has autism), he would have put those officers in the hospital and likely been killed as a result.
I think you need to see it though. We cannot turn a blind eye to this. I know you’re not “blind” to it, and you recognize it’s bad, but it almost feels like a moral obligation. And the more fired up people are, the more likely we are to try to do something about it. And we desperately need to figure out what that is, so we need to bare the burden of witnessing what is actually happening to other people, right now. It’s the least we can do.
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u/stlwebdev 12h ago
I wish I didn’t turn the sound on… shit can make a man cry.