>>miles+(OP)
Some of this is being documented on Github.

https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/repor...

There are several open issues that tech could help out on (IPFS backup, front end for viewing, ...)

>>fit2ru+M1
Even the ones that were prosecuted have sometimes been pardoned: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...

>>pjc50+n3
No. You need guns so they don't shoot you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/04/30/armed...

>>irrati+53
Unfortunately, I doubt we've made it 10% through this particular historical chapter so far. Certain people will see things like this [1], and they will start taking potshots at random cops who had nothing to do with it.

And no, it won't help.

[1] https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-te...

>>irrati+V2
I saw an interview[1] with radio host Charlamagne tha God who seems to promote gun ownership to the black community.

It’s sad to say, but I think that might actually be a smart way to promote better gun ownership laws in the US. Using racism against itself: black people (legally, openly) wearing guns might be a good (but really dangerous) argument against any people wearing guns.

[1] https://youtu.be/5qxdCopOeJ4

>>tsimio+p4
They haven't even reached "brutally" yet.

Dr. King advocated non-violent, economic, protest on 3.4.1968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414101 On 4.4.1968 they showed him the violence inherent in the system.

Do you have any good anti-authority songs in your country? I've been trying to think of what might be good ones in the US tradition.

    In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, 
    By the relief office I seen my people; 
    As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking 
    Is this land made for you and me?

But that's an ancient one... probably the kids are way ahead of me on this front?

>>082349+va
We do have one [0], from 1990, a series of protests right after the 1989 revolution (the protests were violently squashed by miners with pickaxes summoned by the president of that time).

It goes something like this (in a somewhat word for word translation, and keeping in mind that the big bad at the time were leaders of the former communist party):

    Better a vagrant,
    Than a traitor,
    Better a hooligan,
    Than a dictator,
    Better a hoodlum,
    Than a party activist,
    Better dead,
    Then a communist

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlUW5Imylc

>>tsimio+sg
Oh really? How about that list?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests#Deaths

Mind you this is not a pepper spray or flashangs which are relatively harmless.

>>dragon+O3
In Couer D'Alene conservative open-carry volunteers protected the protests and prevented any violence and confrontation from breaking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIS4C7ym5YM

If there is to be an alternative to the distant and aloof police state, it will have to be in the form of attentive and caring locals possessing sufficient enforcement power.

>>tsimio+Su
mersi — this is about the protestors, was it ever sung by them?

(coincidentally, YT just suggested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTOD5jjac4 )

>>082349+z62
I was too young back then, but my impression is that this was sort of sung in concert among the protesters.

I may be wrong and it may have been after the fact though, I'm not entirely sure.

The lyrical voice is meant to represent the voice of the protesters, for what that's worth - it's not singing about 'them', but about 'us'.

That related video is pretty sad to see - one of the greatest freedom fighter and labor rights[0] protest songs, perverted as a commercial for some Netflix TV series...

[0] in case you haven't heard it before, there's an even older version then the anti fascist one, which was a protest song from the women working the rice paddies in 19th century Italy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6CW6l-A1rnk

>>tsimio+kM3
grazie! I hadn't heard that one.

The wobblies anticipated Portal's "The Cake is a Lie" with "Pie in the Sky":

    Work and pray, live on hay
    You'll get pie in the sky when you die, that's a lie

but later got googlebombed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6n71-zctE

(it's also bleakly amusing to have learned from Youtube that Paul Robeson —up until they cancelled his passport— sang different words to "Old Man River" in the US and in the USSR)

On a lighter note, it seems US kids do still sing "This Land" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRnHx3yVuf4