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"[...] So when I say that it's horrific to see people supporting the police, anywhere injuring the media, anywhere

"That is absolutely the utter least I could say, and I thought about how to make it softer, and that's not it's because it's what I think.

"It's what I can advisably say.

[...]

"When an internationally award-winning photographer who's been a witness for Congress about police overreach says "that's bad"

"Listen.

"Because you know what I've been pepper sprayed by cops while covering protests for nearly a decade, I have reported from actual armed rebellions, and I am telling you from behind my litigant's circumspection

"The press is pepper sprayed before people lose eyes.

"Which is to say: no state repression starts by shooting the media. The creep is incremental, it's well documented across the world, and how it starts is 'we merely pepper sprayed some folks who clearly weren't protesters for crowd control, totally legitimate'

"I am silly and I talk about absurd things and it is because I live an absurd life where some days you just go to work and lose an eye and the public says 'well what were you doing, out there doing that public service'

"But I'm highly qualified and completely serious.

"The rights of the people are sacrosanct but they first restrict the press

"Because without the press how would the people even know they were having their rights restricted"

-- Linda Tirado (KillerMartinis), 2021-09-20