Ok, you're spreading misinfo. They fell back because they got overwhelmed, and in that process a cop got crushed to death. The guy that pulled aggro wasn't the one that got killed. Secondly, the selfies thing? That's fawning, that's a survival tactic when you're taken hostage. It sucks that the cop died, in much the same way it sucks that any single person died, but let's not kid ourselves here. There are no heroics, just tragedy.
I think that the cop who was with other the cops trying to hold to the line to protect the lawmakers that ultimately support you and got crushed to death to death as result is a hero, unlike the cop who was cowed into taking a selfie with the insurrectionists who tried to overthrow our government. The latter guy should be fired because if you sign up for a job where the motto is "protect and serve" and falter due to your life being in danger, the people don't need you in that job.
You do realize how many of the most passionate antifascists used to be a part of that group, do you? Most of them do not speak of it for a number of reasons, but I have been very open about my past for one simple reason. It draws out the parasitic moral narcissists like yourself who, just like those AltFur groups, feed off of grievance in order to farm social capital. You don't care about the marginalized communities, for whom lies the very reason we fight against cop brutality, you only care about looking like the hero, and now you, self-styled emperor, your clothes are gone.
I care about police brutality; I just realize we need government solutions to problems stemming from the government. Stripping blanket immunity for police officers, having civilian review board do oversight of police departments, and actively increasing diversity in police department leadership roles rather just the lower ranks is how we need to combat it.
That said, we have a major problem with right-wing extremism in this country at the moment and some would accurately point out that we have always had that problem. Right-wing terrorist groups are the number one killers domestically of Americans and a lot of those deaths are minorities like ourselves.
Deplatforming needs to be done undoubtedly, but there needs to be a permanent state apparatus dedicated to aggressively identifying and neutralizing these groups before they can harm people. We had a plot just last year where extremists were planning to kidnap and kill not one, but two sitting Democratic governors. There has been a concerted by Trump administration to frustrate FBI and to lesser extent DHS efforts to step up efforts to foil far-right extremist groups.
I'm for respecting civil liberties, but I think there need to be efforts by activists and the lawmakers they boost to put in legislative rail-guards against abuse of the system we use to go after extremists.
