As the summer unfolds we have seen more than enough incidents of how the police are inefficient, until they get assigned to hunt down people like Jayland Walker. They are not charged to protect lives, but maintain order. The persecution of racialized people, killing African folks are fulfillments of their duty to defend the order of the settler-colonial project.
Ultra nationalist, illegitimate militants charged with hunting down people like Jayland Walker move and kill with the confidence of the police. The state is sympathetic to their cause and will only come at them when their actions threaten the order. The state watched and remain passive to the rise of a new movement of supremacist shooters.
Law enforcement and the ultra-nationalists may acquire their firearms through different (legal) means, but they share bullets. Their kills are not indiscriminate, the bullets they fire seek out designated targets, persecuting people they can’t name. Expiring random, yet chosen bodies and faces that fall into the ranks of their so-called “enemy”. In their own fragile minds, they are soldiers engaged in a righteous war against the people they value as the antagonists, enemies of the nation and peace, or in otherwards, historical actors struggling against white-supremacy and US settler-colonialism. This is the narrative of state and militant dynamics.
Why do you think they like to fist bump each other while repressing leftists and racialized people’s mobilizations?