Police in city after city have made it very clear that they simply do not care if they are exposed as lawless brutes. Police in U.S. cities today are not standing up for law and order — they are expressing violent contempt for democracy itself. The police are not only at war with mayors, governors, legislators and city councils ― they are at war with the American people and the very idea of America as a nation where citizens govern themselves. Even the far-right fringe in our country uses the language of freedom, liberty and democracy to defend its values and ideas. But the only people who can save a democratic vision for America are the people themselves, in the streets, night after night.

Source: Huffington Post June 07, 2020 12:00 UTC