#ICE #Uprising #civilwar
#Intifada Update June 12 2:40 EDT:
The Intifada against Trump and ICE is spreading, we have serious fighting in multiple cities and National Guard deployments to multiple cities.
Both civil wars and revolutions often start like this. The Syrian civil war certainly did.
As of now we have:
National Guard deployed in LA, Marines about to deploy
Fighting continues in LA anyway
Fighting in San Francisco too
Fighting in Seattle
Cop cars set on fire in a police parking lot in NYC
Cop cars smashed in a battle in Atlanta
Fighting in Austin, Texas
Texas Governor Abbot mobilizing the TX National Guard himself against protesters
National Guard being deployed by Trump to 5 more "deep blue" cities some of which don't even have fighting yet.
So far the pattern looks like this:
In cities not experiencing ICE raids and where police do not attack protesters, the protests stay peaceful.
In cities with a critical mass of community defenders, ICE raids are resisted by force. Fighting then continues after the initial raid is defeated or limited by defenders.
In cities where police assault peaceful protesters, force is sometimes (not always) met with force. Fighting may then continue for the duration
Video: cop cars burn in an NYC police parking lot. Published by Unity of Fields so unlikely to be old recycled 2020 footage.