END EVICTIONS NOW! Oklahoma Sheriff Shot Dead Over Eviction Notice! | Thinking Out Loud

In this episode of his "Thinking Out Loud" series, Double D discusses the shooting of Oklahoma county sheriff Sergeant Swartz, who was killed while serving an eviction notice.
Jumping into the video, Double D reads excerpts from an article from 'The Oklahoman' which outlines the events of the shooting. Reading the charges put to the defendant, he laughs at the clerk of court bureaucracy, which feels the need to lay charge on top of charge onto a man who is already guilt of murder. He points out also, the media's morbid fascination with outlining a defendants criminal past, noting that this is a means of manufacturing our consent for the sort of trigger-happy policing that results in the deaths of hundreds innocent people every year.
Diving deeper into the story, Double D rolls a video from the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) Facebook page which depicts Sergeant Swartz on his routine of delivering eviction papers. In the video, Swartz talks repeatedly of his "desire to help people", being what caused him to join the force. Double D contrasts Swartz supposed raison d'etre with a point in the video which shows Swartz evicting an 80 year old woman from her home. Double D ruminates on the rational and psychological disconnect that occurs within most people serving in law enforcement. While suggesting that many people do enlist in law enforcement with the intention of helping people, he questions how such individuals reconcile their sense of self with the reality of their job, pointing out that serving eviction notices, uprooting homeless people, and arresting non-violent drug users does nothing but destroy lives.
Double D suggests that it is this reality which causes people to make comments such as "FUCK 12", "ACAB", or "Fuck the Police." He points out these slogans exist because working people associate police with violence, eviction, fines, and the war on drugs, more than they associate them with crime management and prevention. He then explains the rationale behind the popular slogan "ACAB: All Cops Are Bastards", saying that while individual people working in law enforcement may be "good people", that upon donning the uniform and upholding unjust laws and property relations, they become in essence, "bastards of the state", or "bastards of the system of capitalism", whose prime directive it is to uphold unjust systems of appropriation while masquerading as "agents of the peace."
Next, Double D dispels the "policing is dangerous work" narrative, citing the article which claims that the last OCSO deputy killed in the line of duty was nearly 100 years ago in 1935, the result of a shootout with bank robbers who had escaped the local penitentiary. He notes also that nation-wide statistics reveal that far less police are killed in the line of duty than are innocent people killed by their hand every year.
Ending the video, Double D suggests that violent incidents such as this will only become more prevalent, as an increasingly desperate working class is pushed into spontaneous retaliation more often. He points out that eviction is a form of state-sanctioned violence, that homelessness is systemic violence, and that the eviction notice on your door is a promise of the violence which will be brought upon you if you refuse to vacate your home; and that there is no excuse for a society that elevates property rights over human rights such as the guarantee of adequate housing.

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