I’m having trouble finding info about how many people the pigs killed, or died of wounds inflicted by them or counter protestors. Or how many became disabled.
That’s because the authoritarian USian regime censors information about police repression
Last I heard, the number was still rising as the chemical rounds they fired onto the civilian population lead to miscarriages, asthma, pneumonia, covid complications, and more.
There’s things that are hard to tally. The police blockaded my neighborhood for months and refused to allow emergency medical services in. No ambulances. Some bullshit about it not being safe for EMS. We had to drive people to the hospital in cars. Did anyone die because they didn’t get treatment? Fuck if I know.
I don’t think we’ll ever know. Maybe someone will try to piece it together decdades from now, but I’ve never seen an attempt to tally all the death and the official regime line is that one man was killed and it’s okay bc
We know at minimum a thousand people were murdered by police because at minimum a thousand people are murdered by police every year. So that’s the base line for how many people were killed by security forces over teh course of hte year.
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
—Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845
I really like Engels style!
