Dorothee Benz (https://fair.org/home/being-neutral-in-the-face-of-a-fascist-threat-is-not-an-acceptable-journalistic-value/)
Structurally, foundationally, ideologically, the function of the police has always been to defend the system as it exists, and the system is a white supremacist system. The ruling power started 500 years ago with settler colonizers; it went on to include genocide, slavery, strikebreaking in the more modern capitalist era. It has never included defending democracy. That is a central understanding of how the police work. They weren’t overwhelmed. They knew; they just didn’t think it was a problem.
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