Patriot front arrested. they have a uhaul filled with shields and idk what else https://t.co/c8pCyd0xGW pic.twitter.com/omQuLyPpoe— alissa azar (@AlissaAzar) June 11, 2022
And how does attempting to pull off an attack on a pride event serve to gain the group doing the attack any power in comparison to the local police?
Assuming the Pride event is attended or endorsed by state officials? Coeur d'Alene is spitting distance from Spokane, and a chronic battlefield for nativist Idahoians who think Washington is encroaching on their turf.
Making a border town hostile to West coast transplants serves to both rally regional bigots to a unifying cause and intimidate border locals with an interest in encouraging coastal development and migration.
The cops did not mess with the people walking around passively intimidating people and not technically breaking any laws. But they arrested the people who came being too obvious about it.
I don't know what the cops were up to outside of what was reported. That said, I suspect these guys see the local city leadership as their team and the Idaho nativists as "foreign" in the same way the nativists think Coeur d'Alene's government is a puppet of Spokane's.
Likely true, but consider this: during the George Floyd protests cops in most cities did not see fascists from our of town as being non-native, and collaborated with them. If these fascists had been attacking something that did threaten capital, I think the cops would have temporarily forgotten about that dynamic and let them proceed. Or at least wouldn't have arrested them.
That's the whole deal with thinking about politics in primarily material terms. These group dynamic things matter a lot, but when material things are on the line suddenly they don't.
during the George Floyd protests cops in most cities did not see fascists from our of town as being non-native, and collaborated with them.
In Ferguson, the cops were - themselves - non native. The St. Louis PD has jurisdiction over the county, but the residents have no electoral impact on St. Louis offices.
It's a fundamentally different relationship here. Coeur d'Alene isn't a country captured by a larger right-wing municipal government. It's a liberal enclave running counter to the prevailing culture of the state.
Assuming the Pride event is attended or endorsed by state officials? Coeur d'Alene is spitting distance from Spokane, and a chronic battlefield for nativist Idahoians who think Washington is encroaching on their turf.
Making a border town hostile to West coast transplants serves to both rally regional bigots to a unifying cause and intimidate border locals with an interest in encouraging coastal development and migration.
I don't know what the cops were up to outside of what was reported. That said, I suspect these guys see the local city leadership as their team and the Idaho nativists as "foreign" in the same way the nativists think Coeur d'Alene's government is a puppet of Spokane's.
Likely true, but consider this: during the George Floyd protests cops in most cities did not see fascists from our of town as being non-native, and collaborated with them. If these fascists had been attacking something that did threaten capital, I think the cops would have temporarily forgotten about that dynamic and let them proceed. Or at least wouldn't have arrested them.
That's the whole deal with thinking about politics in primarily material terms. These group dynamic things matter a lot, but when material things are on the line suddenly they don't.
In Ferguson, the cops were - themselves - non native. The St. Louis PD has jurisdiction over the county, but the residents have no electoral impact on St. Louis offices.
It's a fundamentally different relationship here. Coeur d'Alene isn't a country captured by a larger right-wing municipal government. It's a liberal enclave running counter to the prevailing culture of the state.