#Unarmed

Scott Hechinger

ScottHech

Police must be stripped of their discretion to interact with people. Far too risky & deadly. One place to start: Traffic stops. "Reassign most traffic enforcement to separate traffic agencies

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emmaceratops

So. We want to play the cancel game? Yes, racism, homophobia, sexism, etc...Need to be CALLED OUT. Problematic behavior and microaggressions need to be called out. But...what truly needs to

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

This combination of essays by @gcaw--together--is particularly powerful and suggests why we might not want to have a degenerate culture that glamorizes violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615

Meg Heckman

meg_heckman

1/n This week shows (again) that much of our social infrastructure—namely our health care and criminal justice systems—suffers from persistent structural racism. Also that our concept of white womanhood too

Xavia Williams

LadyZay16

Thread: What is police brutality, systemic racism, how it's gotten worse since 2008, negatively affects African Americans lives, and why it's not a coincidence. In other words this thread is

Adodger

AdodgerWho

If you are finding yourself watching:the press be attacked for doing their job.unarmed peaceful protesters being assaulted.hyper aggressive police officers.asking yourself what is happening, please take a look at what

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RJGarnerAuthor

I'm going to post the circumstances of every unarmed black person killed by cops in 2019. Ready? (thread) 1. Michael Dean. Shot on a traffic stop. Refused to take keys

Korey Zelda

ksterlingzelda

america’s capitalist society built its foundation on the super exploitation of Africans who were brought as slaves; the stealing of land from Indigenous and Mexican people; and the genocide of

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Yellowdogthing

This is why BLM doesn't get the actual recognition it needs, for a long time now BLM has been calling out "Injustice" on situations were police were given no choice

Rick Wilson

TheRickWilson

1/ Since y'all are all too young to remember this, and since I was only 5 at the time, there's some ancient history here to be considered.In the 1968 race,

Gideon

DondeonBeke

I have something on my mind that I'm not sure is time appropriate but is a very necessary thing as far as I'm concerned, so that more people see how

k esquivel

kesquivel4

1 Trump is inciting racial violence between groups of what will probably be most of our black and white youth. Granted, they ( on both sides) have not yet developed

Daniel Collins

DanielCollins85

Alan Douglas (RUC inspector from 1976 to 2001) made an historically-suspect claim in @BBCnireland's '#CopsOnTheFrontline':"I don't want it to go down in history that the Royal Ulster Constabulary were responsible

Cathrine Schmid

SchmidCathrine

Did you hear what happened in Boston?In Boston, during a verbal dispute, an unarmed teenage boy was forcefully hit in the head with the butt of a weapon by local

andre is writing a book.

andrehenry

I feel some kind of way about people suggesting a commitment to nonviolence is a privileged position.First, my ancestors who chose nonviolence lived at the bottom of America's caste system.

isidora

edenrancore

i removed myself from my pfp because i don't want locals to find me cause i'm about to go off priv and say something thats been on my mind and