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We stand w/ #JacobBlake’s family & community calling for #JusticeForJacobBlake. We demand an end to the culture of violence in policing that disproportionately harms Black people in the US. This culture is exacerbated by the growing militarization of
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. @KenoshaPolice is one of thousands of agencies across #WI & the US who has received military weapons from the Pentagon’s little-known 1033 Program, which transfers everything from grenades to armored vehicles to police. 2/4 https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2020/06/24/the-arsenal-in-the-hands-of-wisconsins-police/
The @DeptofDefense designed these weapons for use against adversaries in wars; not to make communities safer. Studies have linked the militarized policing driven by the 1033 Program to greater use of force against and killing of civilians by police. 3/4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/30/does-military-equipment-lead-police-officers-to-be-more-violent-we-did-the-research/
Congress helped to create the harmful 1033 Program and they have the power to end it. Efforts are underway to reform and ultimately abolish the 1033 Program.
Learn how you can help #DemilitarizethePolice. 4/4 https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/how-demilitarize-police/
Learn how you can help #DemilitarizethePolice. 4/4 https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/how-demilitarize-police/
