Is throwing a brick through a window violent? What about graffitiing a wall? Or lighting a driverless car on fire? What about trampling over a defenseless person with a police horse and then clubbing them? What about shooting someone from five feet away with plastic bullets? What about tear gassing entire city blocks?

Is it reasonable to ignore the power dynamic in this discussion? To see unarmed protestors standing up for their community members brutalized and ask what they did to deserve it? Is property damage violence? Are the police ever accountable for their violence?

Rebecca Solnit has a few thoughts on LA and “violence.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)