Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press. He had undergone several surgeries, with doctors removing nine bullets and amputating his leg.
The shooting outraged Perez’s family and Pocatello residents, and about 200 people attended a vigil Saturday morning outside the Pocatello hospital where he was treated. Another crowd of protesters gathered outside the Pocatello City Hall building, which also houses the police department, on Saturday afternoon. Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop during the protest, though no violence was reported. Many of the protesters held signs with phrases like, “Do better, PPD” and “Justice for Victor,” and passing cars honked in acknowledgment.
Here’s a reminder that the Black Panthers started because people realized that peaceful unarmed protests were quickly met with police violence… But peaceful heavily armed protests had cops politely watching from across the street. Turns out, cops are a lot less likely to blindly fire into crowds when the crowds are capable of returning fire with overwhelming force.
Even MLK Jr said that peaceful protest only gets you so far; Disrupting highway traffic is fine for bringing awareness to your plight, but at a certain point the lawmakers and dug-in oligarchs need to be forced to change.
Apparently, what armed protests get you is gun control. Which isn’t too bad I guess.
Armed protests didn’t protect Sandy Brook when American cops decided they didn’t care. Armed protests haven’t fucking done shit, peaceful protests haven’t done shit either.
But where do you think there is to FUCKING go?! You will DIE in an anarchy, you will DIE under communism, you will DIE under a monarchy, you will DIE in a dictatorship, and you will DIE under democracy.
You cannot be satisfied, because I know the truth. You’re all FUCKING SCUMBAGS who think of themselves as deserving of “wealth to have power over others” just to feel safe.
Go. Away. All of you. If you can’t trust a random person because the system is corrupt to the core, no system will ever be good enough for any of you. Your neighbours, your friends, your family, and most of all your leaders cannot be trusted under standards like that no matter HOW much anyone likes them.
And that means I can’t trust you, because you already never trusted me. I’m done with this fucking bullshit, I hope you all get yourselves killed because you’re the ones who have doomed us just as much as the rich assholes; you will delegitimize any government and if we end up in anarchy because of that, I have no reason to not commit omnicide. Not genocide, omnicide. We will be extinct. That is how much you fucking disgust me.
Yeah, I was going to mention that modern gun control was started by republicans because they were scared of armed black protestors. But that felt a little too tangential for a single comment.