nostr:npub17z6pyrpq0an5jc0vlqrtuymxeahl8245ha0q349x592pjzq3dkjsw94mp8 People are terrified of the American police state. Even outside the context of protests, death, injury, and imprisonment are expected outcomes from supposedly benign interactions with police. Nonviolent cop city protesters are being charged with terrorism. BLM protesters were snatched up by unmarked vehicles and disappeared. Activist leaders hanged from trees and "conveniently" had their deaths ruled as suicide. And then there's the right wing stochastic terrorism like K Rittenhouse