Chey. 26. Queer. Proud Native American in NDN country, Hodasji Jiwere-Nut'achi.
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If you’re not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it’s incredible.
Yesterday evening, D.C. police forced a large group of peaceful protesters and demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in a tactic known as “kettling.”
Kettling is a military technique to encircle people, to box them in on all sides, into a smaller and smaller and smaller space where they can’t retreat or escape from. In American protests, it’s often accompanied by police forces taking advantage of the fact that protesters can’t retreat to inflict maximum harm with teargas, batons, and other weapons for an extended period before doing mass arrests.
It’s not a dispersement technique, it’s the complete opposite – it’s a technique of intense aggression, and it’s controversial because it’s seldom used in good faith and often results in intense prolonged violence, with the intention of also cutting everyone caught in the kettle off from medics, aid, food, water, the ability to leave, etc.
Last night, D.C. police pushed demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in an attempt to kettle them. But residents of the neighborhood had been watching, and threw open their front doors to protesters, including a first-generation Indian-American man named Rahul Dubey.
Rahul and his neighbors sheltered a hundred people or more, between them, for eight hours last night, including having teargas fired at their homes and having the police try to enter their private property several times through various methods. They were rebuked and dispelled every time.
Rahul and his neighbors orchestrated food, medical aid, and lawyers during the siege, including ensuring protesters had safe escorts this morning.
You can read the first-person accounts from the people who were trapped there:
It is getting close for your six-month mission to come to an end. All those months of seeing new places and meeting new people was something you loved. Even though it breaks your heart to leave your clan for that long they all reassured you that everything will be fine.
Packing your things, you made your way to the destination site where you were to meet everyone. When you got there you introduced yourself and everyone did the same. Well almost everyone. Another sensei just like you with white hair with a mask sat in the corner just being quiet. You didn’t let it bother you, so you just minded your business.
Soon it was time that everyone got their missions and what they needed to do, and everyone was going to be partners. As everyone else’s name was getting called yours was the last to be said. When you heard the name Hatake Kakashi you didn’t know who that was. That was until you saw the same guy from the corner standing beside you.
After a long day Captain Burns is glad and relieved to come back home to relax for the rest of the night. By relaxing he is going to cuddle and hug the woman he loves most. You. Ever since he stared into your eyes one day he couldn’t get you out of his mind. He had to talk to you, and he wasn’t letting that chance get away from him.
