COPS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS UNITE TO ATTACK BLM COUNTER-PROTESTERS

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"A Growing Rightward Reaction To BLM Protests Has Sparked “Blue Lives Matter” Protests Attracting Cops And Right-Wing Supporters.

Counter-protesters have been met with violence from both the NYPD and the pro-police demonstrators. These confrontations represent a re-escalation of repression by Democratic politicians to both sway public opinion against the protests and try to regain some of the legitimacy lost by the police since the movement against racism and police brutality began.
George Floyd’s murder, along with the murders of Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and so many others, laid bare for the world how police are mandated by the state to terrorize people of color, especially Black people. The severe repression against protesters put this violence on display on a mass scale and showed the lengths the state is willing to go to  keep its hold on “law and order.” Yet, even as politicians, NGOs, and nonprofits try desperately to co-opt and pacify the movement, the most leftward expression of protesters’ demands — from defunding and disbanding police departments to abolishing police and prisons altogether — have seeped into the national consciousness and gained substantial support. The movement against police brutality has posed a significant challenge to the legitimacy of policing as an institution.
This deep questioning of the police and the system of oppression they uphold has also, however, produced a rightward countertendency in support of police and against the anti-racist movement. So-called “Blue Lives Matter” protests have sprung up across the country, attracting thousands of cops and right-wing supporters to their ranks. In New York City alone, three such protests have taken place in the last week, with right-wing demonstrators violently confronting counter-protesters trying to shut down these blatant displays of racist intimidation. 
Just last weekend in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge, there were two pro-cop demonstrations involving thousands of people and protected by a heavy police presence. Both rallies resulted in clashes between right-wing demonstrators spewing racist, homophobic, and sexist slurs and the Black Lives Matter protesters who organized counter-protesters against the rallies.  . ."

https://popularresistance.org/cops-and-their-supporters-unite-to-attack-blm-counter-protesters/

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