They’ll continue trying to make examples out of people until the very end.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

Okay, so when it comes to reviewing how popular growing civil unrest historically tends to react to those in power just cracking down harder, do decisions like these make sense if the goal was de-escalation, social stability, and/or generally maintaining the position of those in power? When the masses were beginning to increasingly resort to violence in reaction to state actors inaction, malice ,and/or incompetence was the best answer ever to escalate state power/violence? I’m looking back through history and uhhh… well, this story right here is a pretty good anecdote of us having been in “oh shit” territory for a bit now. Yeah, it’s about time to really brace for impact and really get to know your local community.