Baltimore and Cops

courtesy The Wire cable television series: It hard to say for certain if the movement will continue or what shape it will take, but seeing as how the state simply out and out refuses to legally restrain or chastise the cops, I'm imagining we'll see more protests, according to Rabble. I want to point out what you could call infrastructural elements of society that the movement has taken advantage of, and which have aided its success. Baltimore showed that the Black Lives Matter movement is alive and well, and the city of Baltimore itself was already synonymous with police corruption, a racist legal system and the bleaker side of the American dream, courtesy of The Wire cable television series, which one can buy on the street in Mexico these days. By structural accomplice I mean a technological or industrial feature of U.S. society that has played a part in the success of the BLM movement so far. 1. Simply put, we now have hard evidence of what happened, whereas before it was always the cops' word against the victim's, if they were still alive, or a witness's. Digital Cellphone Video This one is pretty obvious -- but it no accident that the Oscar Grant protests and the subsequent organizing in the Bay Area in early 2009 against police brutality happened precisely when phones with a video record function became affordable and widespread. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.