#Policing

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

You wanna know why the Ahmaud Arbery story is so disturbing for a lot of us? Because many black people can recall a specific incident where we could have met

gay “person” devin🥚🏧

adhdamity

ableism in the owl house fandom and why yall need to keep your mouths closed sometimes: a thread so to begin i’d like to start of this thread by saying

Garrett Felber

garrett_felber

A very basic misconception about reform versus abolition is that it's a matter of incrementalism versus haste. Reform doesn't move us forward more slowly, it reinforces the violence and sets

Patrick Smith

pksmid

When Mayor Lightfoot announced David Brown as her superintendent pick, she said he helped Dallas reach 50 year lows in violent crime, but the numbers are more complicated than that.https://www.wbez.org/stories/pick-for-top-cop-didnt-reduce-violent-cr

Nope.

OT_Enthusiast

Today, Chicago surpassed 1,000 gunshot victims so far in 2021. CPD is cancelling days off for several teams. Hundreds of officers will work weeks on end, spending time away from

J.J. Hensley

JJHensleyauthor

A woman ran at me with a knife once. I was responding to a domestic and she flew out the front door, huge knife in hand, & came right at

Nome

NomeDaBarbarian

“My client was assaulted and attacked, and what he did was excusable and reasonable under the law,” the lawyer said, describing firing ten times in a crowded store, killing a

Colin Kaepernick

Kaepernick7

Thread/ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: The Movement For a Future Without Policing & PrisonsThe collection of 30 essays will be posted below over the course of the next 4 weeks. #AbolitionForThePeople

SolarpunkAnarchist

SolarpunkA

THREAD (Read the whole thing before replying)I can’t stand US gun culture in general. But what I find particularly annoying are US anarchists joining in the fetishisation of firearms and

merrywetherweather

merrywethweath

I didn't mean to upset anyone today, so I'm sorry if that was the case. I took some time to work things out and calm down. I was reading up

Andries du Toit 🇿🇦

abdutoit

The racialisation of the #Covid19 debate is deflecting attention away from the genuinely alarming extent to which the current implementation of #lockdown is becoming counterproductive and damaging. 1/ Genuine concerns

Domo 🛹

DapperDomo

All Kamala Harris was tryna do was make sure kids went to school and it’s some raggedy motherfuckers on this here social media platform that wanna act like she committed

Jennifer Doleac

jenniferdoleac

As a researcher, I now take as given that unnecessary escalation of incidents (e.g. to arrests/violence), as well as racial bias, are both (related) problems in policing. The question is

DrawntoIntellect

Drawn2Intellect

I've been trying to re-imagine what anti-racism professional learning would look like for an education system, and none of the options can be completed in a day.Some thoughts:Thread 1/ Anti-racism

Kevin S. Gillespie, Fintech and Legaltech founder.

KevinSGillespie

I’m not going to post the graphic video. I’m ashamed for humanity, and concerned it’s getting worse.The cover up is the worst part. No “rogue cop” BS here. Just a

Sarah McGonagall

gothspiderbitch

I don’t talk about my past interactions with cops because I try my best to repress that trauma, but the injustice done to Breonna Taylor has brought a lot back