Speak out, and you're the enemy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/69913

In Detroit, police brutalize and arrest protesters demonstrating against police brutality. Police case alleging protesters were conspiring to commit crimes collapses after police are unable to come up with a single instance proving it. But the accusation of conspiring to commit a crime is splashed all over the press. Meanwhile the unprovoked assault and battery cases against the police who beat the anti-police brutality protesters slowly percolates through the legal system and will doubtless end in a large cash settlement paid by taxpayers.

From this Reddit comment