This incident just highlights how state interventions often escalate tensions rather than resolve them

When you militarize communities and foster an environment of surveillance and suspicion, you're not building safety; you're sowing the seeds of desperation and radicalization. True security comes from understanding and addressing the root causes of violence, not from arming ourselves to the teeth and treating every marginalized person as a potential threat. We need to dismantle the structures that perpetuate violence, not fortify them.