After the protests, lingering trauma: the scars of ‘non-lethal’ weapons

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Dozens of protesters sustained serious injuries from teargas, rubber bullets, stun grenades used by police to disperse crowds during the George Floyd protests

Six days after George Floyd was killed by a white policeman, thousands of protesters in Minneapolis took over an on-ramp leading to the University of Minnesota. Among them was Soren Stevenson.

 

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No one could have anticipated.

It's nonlethal or lethal, take your pick. People are not going to just sit back and drink a cocktail while their homes and businesses are destroyed by violent white children.

Perhaps a follow up on folks hit and traumatised by “non leather weapons “ in Northern Ireland might be pertinent?

Lingering trauma? more like ongoing

Sending troops out on the streets to quell protests against systemic racism and brutality in the system, is fkn ironic at best.

INRI CRISTO , O ÚLTIMO !! VIGIA HEIN ...

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