[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren’t looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it
[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!
[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE
2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents
27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal
31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025
11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028
How many of those were captured on video? From multiple angles?
We don’t have to pretend America doesn’t have a racism problem to know that rhetoric like this is not well intentioned.
Minneapolis: Check.
On video: Check.
Massive uproar: Check.
White victim: Nope.
George Floyd’s death shows that what matters is that it happened in front of witnesses who were recording on video, not the colour of the victims’ skin.
Definitely for the most part. There’s certainly a race component but the narrative that it’s only that is just divisive bullshit.
As the threat of violent confrontation looms, it’s important to have as many people on your side as possible. It’s also important to demoralize those who remain on the side of fascism. It’s especially useful to have people in the armed forces, in the police, even in ICE, who can see that what’s happening is wrong. Maybe being Nazis, destroying democracy and murdering innocent civilians wasn’t what they thought they signed up for. Even so, some of those people are going to be racists. If the sight of people getting murdered has a greater effect when they are white, that sucks. But if it works, it works.
Sure. Racism will always be a factor.