What happened yesterday, and the photos people post of it (aka evidence), will be the best recruiting tools white supremacist groups ever had. The only thing keeping some people from doing shit like that is fear of getting caught. And yesterday they learned they won’t.
Some of these people will eventually get caught, especially because they posted photos of their crimes, but lowkey arrests and trials in the coming months will not get the coverage of yesterday’s events. The narrative will be that they got away with it.
The FBI surveils Black and Muslim folks so throughly that they once accidentally showed up to a neighborhood funk parade thinking it was going to be a protest. This was planned online in broad daylight but somehow escaped the same scrutiny?
I know how seeing people walk freely in the capital, after a summer of watching BLM protesters get beat by police for standing peacefully, made me feel. But imagine how it made a budding white supremacist feel to see that difference in treatment. I believe the word is emboldened.
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