An Anarchist Perspective on the “Violence” of the Protests against Oscar Grant’s Murder

Posted on January 13, 2009

This is not my writing, I pulled it off the A-Infos news wire.  I liked it though and wanted to share it with ya’ll so here it is.

The news of the “riots” that followed the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant has sensationally occupied the headlines of Bay Area newspapers and television programs over the last week. These reports have focused almost exclusively on the vandalism of local businesses and cars and have remained chillingly silent on the topic of the police violence that occurred that evening. The troubling assumption made throughout all of the reportage is that the destruction of storefront facades and car windows somehow equates to the horrific execution of Oscar, and that it justified the police violence against demonstrators that night.

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