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Also important to remember that police and soldiers globally are often working class people who are seeking to survive and capitalism will pay them well to work and die in its service. They CAN have class consciousness. Labor organizers like Hugo Blanco have long known this.
What's funny about this discourse is Aaron Bushnell knew he was complicit in genocide. That's why he burned himself. No one who understands the power of his protest thinks he was a saint. It's a powerful thing because he was a soldier of the genocidal empire.