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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:
Allison Lane: https://twitter.com/allieblablah
Meka from the 307: https://twitter.com/MekaFromThe703
And you can read Marcella Robertson's coverage on her timeline here, including Rahul's speech to media this morning: https://twitter.com/Marcella_Rob
Most Youtubers: This harmless story includes a real friend so I’ll change their name for privacy!
Rhett and Link: Remember when we burnt down that house in sixth grade? Who lit the flame? Sarah Abbot? YES! It was Sarah and her brother, Adam Abbot! Adam works at IBM now in Asheville, right? Wow, good times.
Thank you to the Steven Universe community for saying such positive things about this scene, we thought you might like to see the pencil test. These are the shots from “Change Your Mind” that I animated and that Kendra @bcakesbaxter tied down. Thank you Rebecca for letting us be a part of your beautiful show. Thanks to our Drew @poseidonsbitch for scanning it all.
Clip from the Jasper and Amethyst ep of the official SU podcast in which Kimberly Brooks discusses her inspiration for Jasper’s voice and everyone collectively loses their shit.