In many ways, in fact, Bovino’s shock troops have the most in common with the Klan “night rides” of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow era South, where hooded Klan members on horseback — often “respectable” leaders of the White community like the local sheriff — terrorized Black families and abused their civil rights. Today, Bovino is leading a mounted raiding unit that descends, unwanted, on targeted communities, terrorizes the residents, and then — unable to break and defeat the hostile residents and ill-positioned to fight a sustained losing battle — withdraws, always trying to stay just a couple steps ahead of the judicial orders and court showdowns that have blocked its worst tactics. Bovino’s circus is the thing that gets the most press, but isn’t necessarily the most damaging… … far more damaging are the roving bands of ICE and CPB that don’t necessarily confront protestors but spend their days pulling folks off the streets and into white panel vans.
Author: Anne Laurie
Published at: 2025-11-17 21:50:36
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