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After George Floyd's murder, Mayor @Jacob_Frey is getting praise for his words.
White liberals often do.
But on *actions*, in the greatest era of mass, racialized criminalization in modern history, Frey ruthlessly sought MORE money for MORE police. https://kstp.com/politics/minneapolis-city-council-passes-16-billion-budget-more-police-officers-included/5576492/#:~:text=Minneapolis%20City%20Council%20passes%20$1.6%20billion%20budget,%20more%20police%20officers%20included,-Updated:%20December%2012&text=The%20Minneapolis%20City%20Council%20passed,cadet%20recruiting%20class%20in%202020.
White liberals often do.
But on *actions*, in the greatest era of mass, racialized criminalization in modern history, Frey ruthlessly sought MORE money for MORE police. https://kstp.com/politics/minneapolis-city-council-passes-16-billion-budget-more-police-officers-included/5576492/#:~:text=Minneapolis%20City%20Council%20passes%20$1.6%20billion%20budget,%20more%20police%20officers%20included,-Updated:%20December%2012&text=The%20Minneapolis%20City%20Council%20passed,cadet%20recruiting%20class%20in%202020.
He exemplifies a basic liberal misunderstanding of the function of police throughout US history. @Jacob_Frey shouldn't speak anymore until he reads some @C_Resistance, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, etc... and is prepared to work on a plan to end structural police violence.
Maybe start with @prisonculture and this: https://truthout.org/articles/police-reforms-you-should-always-oppose/
@Jacob_Frey, after you've done your homework, if you're interested in applying some of those principles, I set some ideas out in https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-punishment-bureaucracy
