DivineChaos100 [none/use name] to politics • 3 months agoMike Brown: the police killing that defined a decadeexternal-linkmessage-square3 fedilinkarrow-up127
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minus-squareAssortedBiscuits [they/them]hexbear3·3 months agoIf you want to trace it back, the first major police brutality caught and spread on social media was Oscar Grant in 2009. link
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]hexbear3·3 months agoOh, of course, yes, Oscar Grant. He was at the tail end so he counts, definitely, but I meant more of the 2010 decade, BLM-era. I think that was kind of the rehearsal but Trayvon Martin kicked off the BLM era and the subsequent ones after him, like Brown. link
If you want to trace it back, the first major police brutality caught and spread on social media was Oscar Grant in 2009.
Oh, of course, yes, Oscar Grant. He was at the tail end so he counts, definitely, but I meant more of the 2010 decade, BLM-era.
I think that was kind of the rehearsal but Trayvon Martin kicked off the BLM era and the subsequent ones after him, like Brown.