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Cover to Rollo Ahmed’s The Black Art—Senate Press Edition (unknown designer/artist, 1994).
(via Amazon)
The police are a fucking joke, have too much power, and are all under educated about the law. When I was six years old, I broke down crying because I thought my mom would go to jail. I was SIX and I knew how corrupt the police were, and I feared them. I still assume a cop with either shoot or rape me unless they are anything OTHER than a white male.
What I mean by this, is that a think a white male cop is going to victim blame me or rape me himself, while with a cop of the same gender as me or of a different race other than white will treat me like a human being.
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.
you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity
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7.5.21. NYC
NYPD continues violently clearing Washington Square Park by showing up in the 100s in riot gear, chasing park guests, arresting park guests, and attempting to illegally prohibit filming them.
The park’s closure enforcement is being demanded by the wealthy property owners around the park who believe displacement and violence and justified to secure their desires for a quiet park. more here
militarized police in armored trucks, counterterrorism, SWAT and SRG units (nyc’s strategic response group) raided the columbia campus earlier today, beat and arrested students, and broke in through the window of hinds hall. press was removed from campus, police are blocking off peoples access to surrounding apartments
as i type this hundreds of police are raiding the ccny encampment only 20 blocks away. mass arrests reported, people being taken away in buses. separate from arrests earlier today at ccny where people were pepper sprayed
Funny silly ACAB video
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NO TW
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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.
“Gen Z will change the world”
we literally just don’t give a fuck
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
I finally finished my black lives matter masterpost, here it is.
It is my attempt at compiling activism (the post includes petitions and donations suggestions), mental health and educational sources (videos, podcasts, books, articles…) anything to help you grow in understanding and get involved with the cause.
for context, he’s referring to the old man who was pushed by a police officer, fell, hit his head on concrete, bled, and was ignored by all the cops around him. this was recorded and has been all over the internet.
Police officers shoot and kill Kid in Los Angeles: ‘He ran because he was scared’
Andrew Heney, owner of the Freeway autoshop, told a local CBS affiliate: “We had a security guard that was out front, because we had just had certain issues with people tagging and stuff like that.”
“And then the police came up, and they pulled their guns on him and he ran because he was scared, and they shot and killed him. He’s got a clean background and everything. There’s no reason.”
The sheriff’s department are claiming Andres Gyuardado had a gun but the autoshop owner and witness to the shooting says that’s absolutely not true he never carried a weapon and didn’t that night.
What’s even worse is that right after the shooting, the Store owner said the cops immediately destroyed all the surrounding security cameras, broke into the store, stole his DVR with the recordings, and then created an illegal warrant after doing all this.
The shop owner also states he never called the police and doesn’t understand because “There was no reason for them to be there.”
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Link to free e-book The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
The judge that signed that warrant was complicit or maybe a warrant was never issued.... either way the indictment of Breonna Taylor’s murderers would expose the deep-seeded structural Racism in Louisville’s system.
Many more people than those cops need to go down for Breonna Taylor’s murder.
