This event is a perfect microcosm of the colonial process.

The front line pushes away barriers, human and otherwise, and then the rest stream through. Those in the middle and back get to insist they didn't know about the violence at the front as if that absolves them. https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1347031398176223233

Everyone starts to claim it was the heat of the moment, caught up in it, distancing themselves from the damage and harms, the fear they created in the people who live in the area.

This is how the east was almost emptied by the military, by militias and volunteers. This is how the west was cleared. Farmers coming behind to fill the void created by war. Pretending they weren't part of it.

This is America.

And by America I mean the western hemisphere.