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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by dragonwriter on Saturday December 18, 2021 @08:23PM (#29610488)
> Black Lives Matter had focused on "Every killing by a cop gets investigated by the FBI" and "Fire the bottom 10% of cops",

BLM wasn't formed in response to police violence, so if it was to limit itself to a narrow tactical policy aim, those would have been odd choices.

Also, BLM has arguably had a broader and more substantial impact already than achieving either one of those narrow goals would have.

Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by Animats on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:16PM (#29610747)
"#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer."[1]

[1] https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by berdario on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:19PM (#29610768)
> BLM wasn't formed in response to police violence,

???

Do you have references to that?

I understand that BLM prominence started with the Ferguson protests against cop Darren Wilson murdering Michael Brown Jr

(Ps, forgot about Zimmerman murdering Trayvon. But that's also a cop-adjacent figure. What most people would define a vigilante)

Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by dragonwriter on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:34PM (#29610839)
> I understand that BLM prominence started with the Ferguson protests against cop Darren Wilson murdering Michael Brown Jr

Yes, it became prominent then because it was already well established with a network of activists, etc.; the principal triggering event (as your PS seems to acknowledge) was the slaying of Trayvon Martin.

> But that's also a cop-adjacent figure.

That may be a valid viewpoint, but it's not the fact that BLM organized around, which was the lack of accountability and the identity of the victim, not anything about the personal characteristics or background of the perpetrator.

Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by 8note on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:54PM (#29618287)
What's the point of disagreement here? You're both saying that BLM was founded and organized around the lack of police accountability when killing black people
Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by dragonwriter on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:21PM (#29620567)
> What's the point of disagreement here?

“Police”.

> You're both saying that BLM was founded and organized around the lack of police accountability when killing black people

No, “police” was not part of the founding focus. Events involving police just happened to be the ones that brought the network to mass attention, after it was founded in response to a non-police (even if some might see it as “police adjacent”) killing with a focus that was not in any way focussed on whether those responsible but not held accountable were police, or “police adjacent”.

Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by iratewizard on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:47PM (#29610888)
Huh. I don't remember a court of law determining that either Zimmerman or Darren Wilson murdered anyone.
Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by dragonwriter on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:40AM (#29612405)
> I don't remember a court of law determining that either Zimmerman or Darren Wilson murdered anyone

Courts of law are institutions of government, and surprisingly enough people sometimes disagree with the jobs done by institutions of government.

Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by iratewizard on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:06AM (#29622202)
A jury isn't a government.
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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by kybernetyk on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:46AM (#29612193)
Mostly peaceful.