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There are no good cops. There is no world where cops can be reformed. There is no world where cops are the good guys. Cops are bad. Cops do not care about you. They do not care about justice. They care about property. All cops are fucking bad.
I have a hard time talking about American law enforcement, because I have ptsd (like a therapist told me this and everything) from my own experiences with cops and because it's so balls quaking insane.
Like, a cop in the United States can pull you over for any reason. Which is a nice way of saying no reason, because literally anything can be used after the fact as justification. A cop can say its cuz you looked at him, or didnt look at him, or it looked like you were holding something, or looked like you were driving too perfectly for it to be natural. It's insane.
There are apparently no circumstances where a cop can't just kill you. The line the courts have applied is "reasonably believed" you were a threat, but that's such a nebulous nothing limit that people get shot for reaching for their license, having their phone in their hand, you're running away with no weapon, not being able to follow conflicting commands, like anything. And cops are almost never charged, because every court is going to believe he could "reasonably believe" he was threatened. Fuck, if you give me enough time, I can make any situation seem juuuuust plausibly threatening enough to pass that bar. It's insane.
A cop can just rob you. Like tell you to give him your wallet, take all the cash out, and just walk away with it. Exactly like you would imagine getting robbed in an alley would go, except no one can help. And he doesn't even have to hide it, he just drops it in a box at the station and they put it in their bank account. It's legal. You can't prove it wasn't drug money. I can't prove any money wasn't at some point drug money. It's insane.
If a cop just walks in your front door and says "I'm here to kill you and your entire family" YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON IF YOU STOP HIM. There is no positive defense for assaulting a police officer in the United States, and doubly so if you kill him. You have effectively no defense against a homicidal cop, which happens same as any other job. Unless for some reason you have cameras all thru your house and clearly caught the audio of him saying that he's there just to kill you, you have zero chance of not going to prison, probably for life. And that's assuming you aren't killed "resisting arrest" while being taken into custody. It is a crime, in this country, for you to defend yourself under any circumstances if the person you're defending yourself from is a cop. That's insane.
You don't have civil rights if a cop says so. You have the right to have a gun, right? A lot of states have open carry. A cop can shoot you if he sees you have a gun. Doesn't matter if you have a license and everything. So you effectively don't have the right to bear arms if a cop can shoot you for exercising it. You have the right to protest. Unless a cop tells you to stop. He doesn't need a real reason to tell you to stop. And if you don't stop, you can be arrested or shot. So you don't really have the right to protest, do you? A cop cant just search your car or house, right? Unless he claims he heard something, or smelled something, neither of which can be proven. So a cop can search whatever he wants, as long as he pretends there was a "reason". So you dont have protection from unreasonable search and seizure, do you? These are no longer rights- they're things the cops allow.. for now. But legally, those rights have already been found to not actually be rights, because any random cop can decide to take that right from you, for any reason. It's insane.
These aren't like crazy things that I'm just making up, these aren't some weird twisted way I'm looking at something, these are all very real things that we all just.. ignore? Police abolitionists and the media bring these things up all the time, and the overwhelming response to it is: so what? Don't break the law and it won't matter. Blue lives matter. More police funding. Cops should have tanks. It's insane. And I always feel like im just rambling and sound insane when I say this kind of stuff because if you wrote a book and had the dystopian government doing the stuff that the police in this country do every single day, those same people who "back the blue" would line up to say stuff like "*Books government* wouldnt have a chance before us real americans stopped them" on twitter and not even get a hint of the irony.
This Barbie HATES COPS
I don't care if your tired hearing about this. You will hear it from me again and again until it gets through your thick skulls.
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People of color throughout history of America have been wrongfully imprisoned by cops
People of color have been wrongfully beaten by cops
People of color have been wrongfully KILLED by cops
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Let it be clear that George Floyd was MURDERED and we will not stop until Derek Chauvin (Floyd's killer) is put into prison.
Tw: blood, and a lot of it
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This is a video of a child being carried off after he was shot by a police officer, and yes he was peacefully protesting.
aLRIGHT POLTICS TIME
It genuinely is pissing me off how out of the two options the us has, we have a fascist and a republican larping as a progressive. Is Kamala better? Yes, definitely. But she is not good. During her time as a prosecutor she withheld evidence that would get a man off of death row until forced by the courts not to do so, has admitted to smoking pot meanwhile was putting people away with the longest possible sentence for the same thing, and kept non violent prisoners past there release dates in prison for cheap labor. She’s also said that she’d continue to arm Israel and would not impose stricter restrictions against them, and said she’d make the us military the “most lethal fighting force in the world” (which is something we don’t need, and that funding should instead be diverted to things like feeding and homing the unhoused, public education, public infrastructure, etc). Listen, vote blue, but once she’s in, we need to be out in the streets. We need to show that we won’t settle for “eh, better than a fascist”.
Posting cuz fuck the bastardization of words like redneck, bring back what it originally meant, hard working, honest to god strikers! Fuck capitalism, fuck cops, and fuck the government!
You can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again
I’m going to be fully honest, I don’t 100% agree with this. I think that a lot of times they realize “holy fuck, I was fucked over, and it wasn’t even for the cause I thought it was when I first joined”. A lot of people join as teens, right out of high-school, only to realize far too late that they are hurting killing people their age and younger. Not every vet is, as you described “self absorbed, entitled, racist, and utterly unapologetic”. And I know, I sound like your tankard “not all cops” asshole. But I’m not, not really. I think that every cop and soldier who doesn’t regret doing what they did “and when it comes to cops, hasnt yet quit) is a bastard. The reason I say when it comes to cops is because military members are technically contractually obliged to serve, and the only two ways to get out make it just shy of impossible to get a job (being end up disabled, and to be dishonorably discharged).
The way y'all talk about American veterans makes it abundantly clear you've never met one
This Memorial Day remember... Police have killed more Americans in the last 10 years than all the troops who have died in wars since 9/11.
Just a reminder that cops are not and have never been a part of the csd
On the 18th of May 2024 in hannover germany police attacked a group of queer people with pepperspray who rallied in support of a squat established by a queerfeminist group next to the route of the citys pride parade. Do not let the cops tell you they are our allies they will turn on us the first chance they get.
FELLOW ANARCHISTS, PLEASE READ.
This should not stop us or scare us.
This should not make us take down our flags, retire our symbols and paint over the patches on our jackets. That's how the fascists want us to react.
This should INSPIRE US.
They are afraid of us. And if they're afraid of us, we have to be doing something right.
Be aware, but do not be silent. Let's make sure as many of our people see this as possible, because we all have to be aware and conscious and safe.
Reblog the crap out of this post. Please, even if you're not an Anarchist yourself, but are a supporter or a punk or have friends who are Anarchists, hit reblog.
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I guess I'm a terrorist now. Have an opinion they don't like? Watch them hunt you down. Make you the enemy. Take you out.
Jesus, come get us. I'm ready to go home.
IMPORTANT!!!
I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there
Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide
Things included are
The symbol for anarchy
ACAB and 1312
The three arrows pointing down in a circle
Eat the rich
Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist
So if you live in the US please be careful
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
If this image didn't make you realise the police are incompetent, cruel, useless cowards then there is simply no helping you
Don't forget about the Indigenous victims of police brutality.
Don't forget about the Asian victims of police brutality.
Dont forget about the neurodivergent/Disabled victims of police brutality.
Learn the names and tell their stories. Many stories are purposely hidden away, ignored, or don't reach media coverage. As someone who cares deeply for the families who've still fighting for justice, don't forget them. Don't forget thoe who've lost their lives. Police do not care for anyone, yes even your uncle who's a "good" cop. The policing system needs to be completely abolished. There is nothing to reform what has caused harm, abuse, and trauma.