All Lives Splatter

RantWoman is going to wade into the title topic VERY gingerly with sincere trepidations about all the vile things that can happen in social media. Many voices in our city life are both misinterpreting each other left, right, and sideways, and simultaneously doing things that do not evoke trust. RantWoman WILL go read some racists posts on Facebook. But first,

The Stranger--KC Sheriff Deputy Placed on Leave

Survey question: All Lives Splatter means which of the following. Choose one or more answer below:

--A really basic statement of Newtonian physics and elementary biomechanics, not all that weird stuff in stars  or black holes or at absolute zero but in the realm of bodies and  cars and roads

--A really unfortunate way of expressing grief and anger about a recent vehicular homicide.

--A wolf howl of pain about a past event. RantWoman appreciates the detail from the Stranger article that Officer Brown's brother Mark died in a motorcycle crash several years ago, RantWoman does not know about Officer Brown, but RantWoman, based on various of her own experiences cannot imagine the death of Summer Taylor not stirring up lots of pain and trauma connected with the death of Officer Brown's brother.

--An awful opportunity to talk about how racism is embodied in the paths of highways through minority neighborhood, how gentrification drives people of color out of Seattle where transit infrastructure is good to the burbs where not only is transit less, but the built environment is in many places not friendly to any mode of transportation besides cars.

RantWoman's heart  goes out to all who knew and loved Summer Taylor. May they (Preferred pronoun)  rest in peace.

RantWoman hopes that appropriate police authorities will be able to fully investigate both Summer's death and other homicides connected with the #SeattleProtest /  #CHOP

RantWoman has plenty of scorn and outrage about the current fashion of driving cars into protests.There are multiple such incidents. RantWoman has a weird media diet but so far RantWoman's electronic info streams include no information about two different vehicles trying to drive into a small protest near a friend's apartment.

RantWoman has no idea whether comments about trauma issues will help in the current situation. RantWoman will only note that one time she was in an adhoc hackathon group with people working on data about something to do with sidewalks and transportation issues. At some point the group did introductions and every single person was there partly because of someone who had died or been badly hurt in some kind of vehicle accident. So MAYBE people who have never lost a loved one due to traffic violence need to just try to find some compassion for someone's pain. This does not mean giving up about fighting a whole bunch of vile history and disturbing tendencies in current civic life. It means starting with compassion.

More sleep also probably would not hurt. RantWoman has done plenty of all-night protesting. Now though, RantWoman gets to live with the reality that sometimes even late-night Twitter just makes her tired on top of all the tiring things causing general #pandemic brain.

RantWoman is not going to opine further here about words like cousins and security detail.

RantWoman is not going to tackle transportation equity let alone all of racism in one post. RantWoman is going to think of her brown-skinned nephew who has visited #CHOP mostly with a sense of hope. Nephew does not care much for late night road closures; mostly he just wants to get home at a reasonable hour.

May we all find sane paths past a lot of bad stuff!

Added 7/13/2020
Further context about the "All Lives Splatter" post in this Seattle Times article about civil claims. Yuck. RantWoman is fine, really, fine with the "All Lives Splatter" part of the comment. RantWoman is NOT fine with the rest of it. But sometimes RantWoman loses it and words do not come out as well as one would prefer. RantWoman is not a lawyer and as a citizen has no idea at the moment what would feel like justice in the claims process and RantWoman is posting on he rown blog, not wading into torrents of comments this way and that.
ST Protesters file claims against Seattle, King County, WA State