This likely means that the knife never existed in the first place, and was made up by the cops in order to justify shooting into a crowd.

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    I know I have definitely been waiting for the inevitable video from someone there that disproves anything the cops said.

    And I kinda hate having that feeling, to be honest. We shouldn’t feel that way.

    But as we’ve seen time and again, cops’ word often can’t be taken as proof without some video to back it up.

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      The sheer, unmitigated corruption and violence that comes from police departments and courts (especially looking at you, “Supreme” Court) is utterly disheartening. I sincerely do not see a way forward without violence, and I am not a proponent of violence. But things have gotten so bad, the people have so few protections and so few people in power on their side. What are you supposed to do when voting doesn’t matter because of corruption, gerrymandering, voter intimidation, disenfranchisement?

      Where do we go from here when there is no one with power or in the mainstream political sphere who is even trying to correct it?

      Yes, we have Bernie and AOC, but two people can’t do a thing.