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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: S. maltophilia12/12/2025 7:28:40 PM
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....But the most revealing replies weren’t the openly racist ones or the predictable “resisting” chorus. It was the people who insisted that the man had a knife in his hand.

He didn’t. The photo clearly shows a cell phone in one hand and nothing at all in the other. But the replies were frantic: circling shadows, zooming in on pixels, drawing in arrows, and calling me all versions of “dummy” for not seeing what so clearly they saw.

And then I started zooming in too. Enlarging the photo, comparing angles, Googling other Getty images from the same sequence to show that the man’s hands were empty. I even double-checked with AI to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. I responded impatiently with my own photographic evidence and comparisons that they were seeing a shadow, not a blade; that they were hallucinating a blade.

And then I stopped. I had been dragged into disproving a lie instead of naming the truth. The imaginary knife wasn’t the point. The need for the lie was. Why do so many people tolerate, even cheer, violence when it’s carried out by someone in a uniform? Why is it so easy for two armed men choking a restaurant worker on the floor to be rebranded as just “law enforcement”?

People hallucinated a weapon because the reality demanded too much of them. The reality was that a man, who apparently had just gone into work earlier that day, was needlessly and violently headlocked by government agents on the floor of his workplace.

This is the psychology of state violence in America. When the American public sees....

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