I don’t know how else to tell folks that in every city across the US, where people on the streets are protesting police brutality and seeking the literal disbandment of police, those same cops are equipped to - and do - unilaterally arrest and jail these same people

We must reckon with fact that there is no meaningful check on police power; that folks wait hours and days in jail, on the ill-intentioned perjury-in-report-form of cops

This in addition, of course, to the well understood phenomenon of cops lying during their testimony, putting people in cages for years and decades and lifetimes.