We Know Why Police Went Easy on the Pro-Trump Terrorists

It’s simple: Police are a regime built to uphold white supremacy

Ray Levy Uyeda
GEN
Published in
3 min readJan 7, 2021

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A pro-Trump extremist takes a photo with police officers at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

In an America that did not know President Trump, many of our federal government’s bureaucratic mundanities were hidden from view. I’d wager most of us didn’t know about the many forms of vote certification that undergird what this country likes to call a…

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Ray Levy Uyeda
GEN
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Bay Area based writer and poet. Retweets: @raylevyuyeda