Gannon’s announcement harkened back to the 2009 New Year’s Day shooting of Oscar Grant, one of the original cases that began the Black Lives Matter movement. Grant, 22, was killed by BART officers after detaining Grant and several other passengers on the platform after reports of a fight broke out. After Grant’s death, Johannes Mehserle, the officer who fatally shot him in the back, claimed he grabbed his gun instead of his taser.
american fascism is becoming increasingly reliant on this narrative of helplessness and feigning weakness. shooting a black man fatally, going on tv and crying about it being an accident, and flying a flag asking for people to pity and support your organization while you are pepper balling protestors in the street. i think it’s meant to reverse the narrative of “injustice” back onto the protest movement itself, because the summer protests proved that a huge amount of people will stand up to perceived injustice. here it seems like the police are trying to frame themselves as the victims of a “mob” that is “overreacting to a mistake”. obviously if you’re following my blog on tumblr you’re not going to fall for this shit but it’s truly heinous and it needs to be pointed out
