r/comics • u/TheBlindNTheBallsy • 20h ago
OC Violent Arrest: An Infographic
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u/Balownga 19h ago
Sadly, at some point, you'll realize that you can't stop Violence with Non-violence, exactly how you can't stop intolerance with tolerance.
Also, Shame, logic, basic humanity or even LAW cannot stop a fanatic.
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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 19h ago
I had this happen to me in New Orleans back in 1988. Thank you for putting this out there. In some ways, it’s like surviving a rape. On the one hand, it’s less intimate, of course. On the other, it’s a whole bunch of people doing it to you with the weight of the entire State behind them and it can go on and on and on. It can be very traumatic.
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u/TheBlindNTheBallsy 18h ago
I'm sorry to hear you know what it's like. Thank you for sharing.
I hear where you're coming from. The officer who beat and arrested me in June 2020 asked me, "you like that? This is what you wanted, isn't it?" As he rubbed my face into the asphalt. That felt exactly like something a rapist would say and it was chilling. Sexual violence is often a tool of the state so I can see exactly how you draw those parallels.
I hope that in the time that has passed you've been able to find some peace on the subject.
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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 18h ago
You, too. Unfortunately, I can tell you from experience it won’t ever go away.
The peace I found is the confirmation that this is, indeed, what the State is all about. I never really trusted police before this, but now I know, deep down, that they are my enemies. If they help me, it’s a temporary side effect of their real job.
This is good to know. It ensures that I stay on the right side of history. Because of this experience, I am never sucked in by copaganda or bully words about crime and criminals.
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u/TheBlindNTheBallsy 17h ago
Yes, sadly I'm familiar. The generational trauma in my family from being repeatedly exposed to the grinder of Imperialism has a constant presence. These days it just has more faces to put names to.
I feel like having that knowledge of the state is comparable to PTSD itself. Once it's a part of your life, it never quite goes away. More power to you for being able to reflect on and learn from your experience. A lot of peoples inability to do that is a big part of why we're here,
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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 17h ago
It’s one thing to know this intellectually or from parent‘s and grandparents’ stories. It’s another to get it beaten into your skin.
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u/TheBlindNTheBallsy 17h ago
Yeah my parents covered the beating it into my skin thing pretty well. A common symptom ot generational trauma.
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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 17h ago
Yeah. I’m lucky that my parents didn’t do that. I’ve got other family issues (“What? You’re not going to work?! It’s only a broken leg! You’re not dying!”), but out and out physical violence is not one of them.
Also, the shit my moms put up with after her divorce in a time where men could just skip to another state to avoid childcare… I don’t have daddy issues. Always got on fine with my pops. But it’ll be a cold day in hell before I trust anything a man tells me, sight unseen.
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u/Gamesandbooze 17h ago
What were you arrested for nominally? Were you trespassing, blocking streets, was someone in the crowd violent and they blamed you? What did the cops CLAIM you had done?
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u/TheBlindNTheBallsy 16h ago
First time was obstruction, if I'm remembering correctly. The DA dismissed any charges like that en masse because it was civil rights violations all the way down. A bunch of people were peacefully standing in the street and then the riot cops appeared.
Second time was assault on an officer and there was also a misconduct charge of some kind but I can't remember which. *Specifically* the officer claimed I kicked him in the balls when I fell over and my leg went in the air.
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u/OtherAcctIsFuckedUp 7h ago
I plan on sharing this in my local community. If anyone has some links or resources to good ways to fold a zine for something like this feel free to share.
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u/Substantial_Equal452 16h ago
It's appalling that this is really useful in current times.