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we’re renaming streets, stepping down from cartoon roles, tearing down statues. and still not defunding, reforming, abolishing none of these other systems responsible for violence against black folk.
since we’re here:
i’m taking a break, but i’ll be back
ok, i’m back. now, just a couple of policies, national and state-wide on police misconduct and accountability measures for police, and other systems.
breonna taylor, 26 years old, at this point, the entire country should know her story. 106 days later, only one of her killers has lost his job. the other two are still employed by the louisville police department.
we could paint these streets yellow over and over, that does not make the the wizard of oz any more real. the systems, policies, frameworks, and mindsets in this country have been geared towards violence against black folk for centuries. it’s more than a netflix category y’all.
andres guardardo, 18 years old, a an el salvadorean boy and security guard murdered by a los angeles county sheriff. no body cam footage is available of his death. there are twitter videos of police tear-gassing protests in his honor https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/21/us/andres-guardado-los-angeles/index.html
milwaukee, wisconsin: an alleged sex trafficking ring where police have been unresponsive to concerns about missing teenage girls, a difference in police vs. community reports surfacing about other black children moved from one location to another https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/watch-milwaukee-crowd-burns-down-suspected-sex-trafficking-house/
elijah mcclain, 23 yo, assaulted and killed by police in aurora, colorado in AUGUST 24, 2019. that’s almost 10 MONTHS AGO, we just learning about his case this past weeks
https://www.inquirer.com/news/mouhamed-cisse-shooting-west-philadelphia-musician-alex-moll-cello-drums-20200608.html?outputType=amp mouhamed cisse, 18 years, shot on june 1st in philadelphia. 8 additional people killed in the three days after.
