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George Pearkes
@peark.es

One thing I have not seen much grappling with: the Trump Administration has acted illegally with respect to the National Guard & Marines in LA plus the whole parade nonsense is a federal show of power, but cops ostensibly controlled by local governments in blue cities attacked protestors yesterday.

George Pearkes
@peark.es

Trump didn’t order CMPD to pepper spray protestors in Charlotte, Trump’s Marines didn’t open up with tear gas in LA, Trump didn’t tell cops in Savannah to detain a protestor for wearing a medical mask. It’s worth asking why electeds in those heavily blue places won’t answer for any of that.

George Pearkes
@peark.es

The biggest challenge to a nonviolent national mass protest movement big enough to overwhelm the tenuous grasp on power that Trump has is the local instruments of power ostensibly controlled by people who ostensibly represent the very groups trying to lead that movement.

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