#Cops

the sun is starting to go down here in richmond. yesterday it was decreed that the area around the robert e lee statue is “closed” from sunset to sunrise. word
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the events that happen in your life from 14-24 tend to shape you the most—politically, mentally, spiritually—i’ve had 6 of those years (2014-2020). this is important bc in 2015, black
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All the dissident right people – especially those over 50 – who foam about how Trump is a nothing remind me of the old joke about the elderly guy faced
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what do we think of the term “unarmed Black man” when speaking about racist murders committed by police? if the Black man was armed, would it make it ok for
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i've been feeling less commie recently considering i don't even know what an ideal society according to angry twitter would even look like. i feel like a lot of meme
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The sheer amount of violence cops commit & the money we spend on them is mindblowing. Cops harass, arrest, beat, & sexually assault people regularly. We pay them to do
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The hardest philosophical struggle of abolition is to change the conversation from "Did the police/state kill in the right way?" to "Ought the police/state have the right to kill?" And
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Jeff, you had your chance & you blew it. Recused yourself ON DAY ONE (you never told me of a problem), and ran for the hills. You had no courage,
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In my early days on the tenure track, I was “asked” to teach classes in children’s lit, nineteenth century british lit, and a cross-time-and-space intro to drama. (“Asked” bc if
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British photographer Adam Gray arrested in New York while taking photos of street protests. Showed his press pass, but thrown to the ground by cops, who climbed on top of
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I'm reporting in Portland tonight! A few hundred have gathered in the park waiting to march to a precinct. Shield training and mutual aid is happening as people wander around
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Hollywood Blvd & Schrader, 1:53 AM:While you were sleeping... This situation doesn’t even make the top 5 list of the weirdest shit I encountered yesterday. Some backstory: the goat is
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If you’re wondering why the white kid who shot & killed multiple protestors could walk calmly to police immediately after without getting apprehended, here he is minutes earlier going up
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Why are the cops who engaged in this criminal behavior still cops in DC? I want them fired, this was a flagrant violation of #FouthAmendment! Police beat 60 peaceful protesters
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It's interesting how shit like the Simmons/Ringer thing just goes all the way back to the basics of structural racism. Not just his hiring practices, but where those come from.
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1. Several of you have asked People Over Profit for our position on policing; we want to make clear that we are abolitionists, which is to say we believe that
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