Thanks Annie,
Helicopter still overhead. Believe it or not this was an organized attack
on the city, starting around 11:45 - the police knew about it ahead of
time. The attackers came in from Massachusetts, drove down, parked around
Westminster St. - maybe 200-300 (at around 3:30 in the morning the cars
started leaving); they were armed with sledgehammers, fireworks, etc. etc.
We knew as well it was coming. The Black Lives Matter march was earlier;
this piggybacked on it. They tried to burn the mall down and destroyed a
lot of businesses on our street. It's been hell. We're going to try to
sleep, I've taken a lot of pills. Very scary it, and different from the
way other cities were hit.
love to all, Alan
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour wrote:
Dear Alan,
I hope you can stay safe
with love to all
Annie
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:16 AM Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote:
Not hopeful here at all, lots of explosions, cars driving out of
the area
at high speed, people carrying loot in front of our place - all
started
around 11, we think our street's been hit bad but we can't go
out and look
tonight, too dangerous - we had to call the cops at one point as
people
were trying to break into the bars below us. It's toxic.
This definitely isn't protest, not at this hour, these people.
This is a
video game. Sirens still going on at 3:15, screeching tires,
people
running, carrying stuff.
- Alan
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Max Herman wrote:
>
> Stay safe Alan. I truly believe this is not protest, nor
anything to do with
> justice for George Floyd.
>
> There's footage now of a young white Chicago man handing out
explosive
> devices to people in my neighborhood last week telling them to
throw them at
> the police station. He livestreamed himself doing it if you
can imagine.
>
> Be hopeful too. The national guard being here has stopped the
insanity at
> night, not by any use of force but just by having some level
of civil
> authority present. They have behaved professionally. The
curfew has helped
> too, allowing police to find the violent instigators and get
fire trucks to
> the fires. The real protests are thriving during the day, with
wonderful
> grace. People are helping each other, connecting, and healing,
distributing
> food, cleaning up, and grieving.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
_
> From: NetBehaviour
<[email protected]> on behalf
> of Alan Sondheim <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 1:06 AM
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] current story
>
>
> It's our turn now, riots and fire downtown central Providence,
a few
> blocks from here. We knew about it ahead of time. There were
warnings.
> Looting in a relatively poor city. We can hear explosions
going off, what
> sounded like fireworks and gunfire. I can't think straight. I
want to get
> the hell out of this country. This is way beyond protest, this
is
> ultraviolence here. Louder explosions now.
>
> The warnings were four or five hours ago. So people were
coming in to
> cause trouble. Earlier there were white motorcycle gangs
around.
>
> Apologies, can't think straight.
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