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if you don’t want the cops to try to kill YOU, just sit quietly at home, accepting that the cops will continue to kill other people as they go about their daily lives.
(ignoring, of course, that one of the precipitating events of the uprising was cops killing a woman in her bed) https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1332516063276376067
(ignoring, of course, that one of the precipitating events of the uprising was cops killing a woman in her bed) https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1332516063276376067
i’m sure the grieving families of atatiana jefferson and breonna taylor would take issue with the idea that staying home is the solution to police violence.
it is legitimately depressing that people feel smart arguing that protesters are working against their own cause by “forcing” the state to spend more money... on brutality against themselves? you do know the state had the OPTION of NOT spending millions of dollars on tear gas?
it is disgusting that localities nationwide, in the midst of a pandemic & economic crisis, have allocated money for chemical weapons over food, rubber bullets over eviction prevention, tanks over PPE, incarceration over housing. that’s not on us. we didn’t do that.
don’t ever let them tell you we can’t afford to end homelessness. that we can’t afford to forgive debts. we can’t afford healthcare. we can’t afford universal preschool.
when we can always afford to wage a goddamn war against civilians in cities coast to coast.
when we can always afford to wage a goddamn war against civilians in cities coast to coast.
do not ever fucking forget that nurses died after working in COVID ICUs wearing trash bags over their clothes while cops dressed like video game characters beat the shit out of people who dared to ask that they not be murdered in their beds. https://www.instyle.com/news/major-cities-spend-millions-more-on-riot-gear-for-police-than-on-ppe-for-frontline-workers
it didn’t have to be like this. it doesn’t have to be like this. defund the police isn’t a slogan or a gimmick or a joke. we cannot afford not to imagine what the world could be if we spent less on roving death squads and more on our communities.
