Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:

Ben Rosengart

@mekkaokereke Thank you. I’ve been banging this drum with friends and feeling unheard. I want the word to get out so my people stop suffering unnecessarily.

Dave

@mekkaokereke basic rule in disaster response: you don't have to work through stuff you didn't see in the first place. Don't look at the body directly, don't touch stuff you don't have to, don't come near the site if you're not immediately required to be there. Stay. The fuck. Away.

Same for these videos.

Cats Who Code (cursed)

@mekkaokereke I watched some of it just so that I knew what was happening, and that was enough. There's some of it going on here too.

🦇 Anthra 🦇

@mekkaokereke too late, just saw it on reddit. first post when i opened it and i klicked.
dear people, i´m so sorry. this is so horrible. Rest in Power 37 years old man who get murdered by ICE in Minneapolis today. This ICE gang of murderers must be stopped immediately!

Energetic Nova

@mekkaokereke

Having a hard time with resistance when its all over my timeline and tonite’s movie says “gun” so some filtering isnt happening may have to wait until last minute to remove mutes.

Sharon Hurley Hall (she/her)

@mekkaokereke totally agree

LAUREN

@mekkaokereke

I highly recommend NOT watching it.

Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦

@mekkaokereke Just to reinforce this point: the video *will* induce a psychological trauma response even if you think you're prepared for it. I saw it, and I'm still feeling the bad feelings hours later.

Cai

@mekkaokereke I learned this lesson the hard way years ago, when police violence was just gaining media attention. I felt obligated to watch a video that was circulating, but did not realize it would shatter me so completely.

I didn't need to see the video. I knew what had happened. I was already mobilized. All it did was hurt me so badly I was useless to anyone for a while and periodically for several years after.

Records are important. So is maintaining emotional health to fight another day

Bruce Heerssen :guillotine:

@mekkaokereke

I never do. The descriptions are enough to fuel my moral outrage. I don't need to add the trauma to that.

Dirk Ritter

@mekkaokereke

That and the regular job description for Trump's ICE brown shirts, i.e. snatching people off the streets in order to disappear 'em. It was clear from the beginning what ICE is all about, wasn't it. And it's certainly not just about one protestor who was murdered just for being there and getting in their way somehow. It's about all the people Trump's paid racists are taking into camps and shit.

Hannah Steenbock

@mekkaokereke

Yes, thank you so much. It is a timely reminder.

I learned that with the Christmas tsunami years and years ago. That's when I stopped watching the news on TV.

We need our minds and hearts intact to fight. We don't need additional trauma. Reading headlines is fine. Digging deeper when you want to is fine.

But don't allow trauma into your mind if you can avoid it. You feeling shattered won't help this poor guy, either.

My heart goes out to all the brave people resisting ICE.

Fucking bitch Martin Vermeer

@mekkaokereke Good advice, and legitimate. I did watch some of the videos, and perhaps strangely, I found the video clips of the Orwellian lying by Bovino and Noem more triggering. I really cannot watch them. Could be my autism.