Crackdowns traumatize protesters so deeply that false alarms trigger terror

Evidence

As the game began, five police cars zoomed up the street and suddenly came to a stop in front of her bar. Her boss saw the look on her face and took her tray from her hands. Mayara ran into the bathroom, and her coworkers locked her inside. Moments later they knocked and told her that the cops had gone; they had just ordered something and left. But Mayara was still in panic. She couldn’t move. She couldn’t leave the bathroom. Finally, she stepped out and took a huge glug of cachaça. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 534

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A night-time police crackdown on tents viralized a small tree protest — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 334; Security walls intensify the defiance they aim to crush — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 641; Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence deployed for security inevitably deepens the insecurity it targets. #expands (0.80)
• Security walls intensify the defiance they aim to crush #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 641
• Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs #expands (0.75) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 368
• Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129
• A few random violent incidents generate outsized public fear #exemplifies (0.72)