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The man threatened passers-by, lit a fire and set off fireworks, police said, and was then detained. The building houses an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.

The vast majority of interactions with the public can be taken care of with non-lethal means, tasers, etc... (if any are even necessary).

Lethal weapons should be in a remote lock holster in their cruiser, and must be unlocked remotely by a supervisor on a per-case basis depending on the facts at hand (suspect's history, potential risk, etc...)

Maybe that's pie in the sky optimism, I don't know.

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(article sourced from new york post, 2025, so )

I wanted to share my experience as a zoomer becoming a communist in a deeply red state and the surprises that came with it. Especially bevause it seems hexbear swings a bit older than me. After deciding that communism was the path forward I literally could not shut up about it. The close friends I had at the time were liberals but not strongly ideologically taken by liberalism. My long term partner and two closest friends are now comrades. Despite being initially very hesitant they were intellectually curious and wanting to hear my perspective. This was not so surprising to me, I became close with them because of those qualities and I expected to convince them eventually.

What did shock me was my friends from highschool who I still keep in contact with and play dnd with over discord every week. One of them is the whitest guy imaginable with parents who listen to fox news all day. The other lives with his family who are diehard MAGA. The former I told about my politics a year ago I was shocked by how unconcerned this made him. His reaction was along the lines of, "ah yeah you would be a commie huh, that's cool, why?" and then "that all seems pretty reasonable but i don't really want to think about poltics too much". Not ideal but shockingly good. The latter I was genuinely concerned was a fascist at times. He really enjoys nordic aesthetics and it set off a lot of red flags for me. I got drunk this weekend and after some conversation about his politics (found out his long term partner is some brand of anarchist) i felt comfortable spilling. He was super curious? Like he asked for reading recommendations? Before I even mentioned books? I need to stress that this man works a trade and hasn't read a book in years but he was fascinated by what I had to say. He very clearly articulated how capitalism is failing but said he felt like a solution simply did not exist. This is the last person I would ever expect to not have severe anticommunist brainworms.

Anyway I have seen a decent amount of doomerism about gen Z recently and I wanted to give my perspectice as someone who is experiencing the growing social consciousness of that generation as it changes. We aren't blindly led by our algorithms, many of us have taken drastic measures to get the fuck away from algorithms in general. There is hope friends. Yes, the amount of us doing praxis is low but as our material conditions degrade I genuinely believe their will be an explosion of political action.

I was at the protests that took place in Delhi today.

The main agenda was to seek the resignation of the Education Minister who presided over like 70 exam related leaks in the past few years. Although my personal agenda was anti-fascism.

The main goal was to reach from Jantar Mantar(Protest site) to the Parliament. This is actually illegal as per Indian law and any gatherings with more than 4 people are a punishable offense in this area. So we expected Tear Gas and Batons.

The government had barricaded the entire route beforehand and brought in thousands of pigs to enforce their tyranny. Additionally, they had a lot of agitators whose sole purpose was to incite violence to justify police violence on protestors who were mostly actual kids or teenagers(~20 y/o).

I didn't participate in the frontline because I went alone. I mostly stayed around the sidelines and dipped when shit started going down.

The BJP did set up a bunch of "surprises" early on.

1. They brought in a truck full of stones and bricks near the protest site. This was later used by agitators to throw at the police so they could start tear gassing us. https://x.com/abhijeet_dipke/status/2079007007281910032

2. They arranged pre-demolished vehicles. These are used by their controlled media(99% of Indian media) to manufacture consent. https://x.com/abhijeet_dipke/status/2079010182282064342

Then as the march began, they launched a series of violent acts against kids fighting for their rights. I'll list some notable incidents:

1. They threw a tear gas grenade point blank at a group of kids sitting on the road. It blew up on the face of one kid. https://x.com/Saurabh_MLAgk/status/2079169208362185045

2. While the BJP arranged for plain-cloth pigs to throw stones, even in-uniform pigs started throwing stones in heat of the moment. https://x.com/Cockroachisback/status/2079173746733015477

3. BJP agitators were caught and exposed https://x.com/zoo_bear/status/2079214501195579896

4. BJP agitators join pigs to beat up kids https://x.com/HandOf_Queen/status/2079224136984093141

5. Kids beaten to a pulp, rendering them unconscious https://x.com/SidKeVichaar/status/2079197902736629962

6. Pigs kidnapping kids and beating them in a corner, away from Cameras

7. Public transport was actually shut down and people were imprisoned inside metro stations in an attempt to create stampedes. https://x.com/MauryaAlka76391/status/2079059290330132933

8. This is my favorite, pigs gang up on a person and back-off when he stands his ground instead of running away https://x.com/DuttShekhar/status/2079182742940786916

9. Pig gets overwhelmed https://x.com/gharkekalesh/status/2079212056474259616

10. Just a shot of one of the multiple protest groups https://x.com/HansrajMeena/status/2079086620205265212

Overall I had fun. I didn't expect this many people to show up at all. Felt like a dream.

BJP completely lost their 12 years worth of online narrative today. People set aside the state sanctioned hopelessness and fought for freedom.

A bunch of Marxist Orgs were also present here organizing and have been helping the protest organize for some weeks now. I'll probably align with them in future protests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stygofauna