As time goes on from that protest shooting becomes clear that by that point it was so insular because it was the straggling legacy of the 2020 downtown scene struggling to continue to exist as a community, that if it was unclear what marching nowhere in outer borough Portland for Tamir Rice was accomplishing is it was events to service the marching community, like how even when a local pinball tournament has some charity fundraising component we’re really putting it together to service the pinball community.

As a last-gasp barrel-scraping for morale for a scene running on E, means “subjecting those marches to a shock of emotional strain” is exactly the thing that would push enough of the participants far enough into morale deficit they’d become defunct and the scene collapses. Even if everyone in the scene still participated in “support the victims” actions as if they themselves were at full morale, to all the victims’ conflicting preferences, they’re no longer articulated with a community base of reserves that could be mobilized over and above regular capacity in extreme situations.

Call it.