When Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, people knew who Chauvin was *immediately*. He was not masked. His identity was not secret. The police did not refuse to identify him. It did not require internet sleuths to figure out his identity. We knew who he was.

When George Floyd was murdered, yes we had right-wing pundits immediately victim-blaming him, but the official stance of the police and the government was "We don't know all the facts, we will do an investigation". With Renee Good, you had the VP of the US that day publicly calling her a terrorist.

Yes, American cops have always terrorized minorities. Yes, they've always been a gang with badges. But the US has not previously had masked, anonymous thugs snatching people off American streets and putting them in secret prisons, extraditing them out of the country despite court orders.

It's always been bad, but it's delusion to behave as if it's not WORSE now. It is. It's so bad that even liberals who have grown up being indoctrinated by copaganda their whole lives are taking notice. Instead of chiding them for being late to the party, show them how they can help.

It has been, up until recently, very easy for a white cis het man from the Midwest to be a liberal largely blind to the worst parts of his own country. And Hank is more aware than most of his clade; he's extremely online, has left-wing friends, etc. and even he has had to overcome all of this.

So if you find yourself angry at Hank or your mom or your co-worker for only NOW coming to the conclusion that things are bad, how about you instead direct that anger at the systems and institutions that blinded them that way until now. Because getting mad at them, who are now coming around? Useless

To expand on the Renee Good/George Floyd comparison, the reason why George Floyd became a flashpoint and not all the Black people killed before (or contemporaneously) to him was footage. We didn't have footage of Breonna Taylor being murdered by cops. We did have footage of George Floyd being killed

Renee Good is becoming a flashpoint not just because she's a white woman or her killing was especially unjustified. It's how demonstrable it is. How there's footage, from multiple angles, showing how she was murdered unjustifiably. That's what makes this different, in a real way, to people.

Rodney King wasn't the first Black man brutalized by police, but the footage of his beating was so shocking to people who otherwise were able to live in a bubble of whether or not these things were real because it was undeniable. Even some people who doubted police brutality before couldn't anymore

I think people for whom police brutality and state violence is and always has been a part of their lived experience can forget how easy it is for people who do not have that lived experience to ignore, downplay, or outright deny that sort of thing. That society indoctrinates them that way.

Copaganda is real. Mainstream media lionizes police and unless you are someone with lived experience of police brutality and cruelty, the odds are straight up against you to realize how bad police always have been, and how bad they are now. The media, the government, all of it is actively lying.