I've been protesting in this city for fifteen years.

Cops have always been bad, but under Commissioner Outlaw and @PhillyMayor it's like they've been given free license to lawlessly attack and brutalize folks exercising their 1A rights.

They're completely out of control. https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1321303990085275648
Last night I watched a cop car turn a corner and deliberately plow through a crowd of protesters who has been just standing there.

They didn't even stop, they just sped off after.
Here they are last night surrounding a car, bashing in its windows, dragging the driver and passenger out, and beating them in front of their children. https://twitter.com/berniebromanny/status/1321275608186408963?s=19
During the last round of major protests, they gassed THOUSANDS of peaceful protesters on 676 and shot at us as we tried comply with dispersal orders and escape up a steep embankment.

They fired tear gas canisters into terrified, cornered crowds.

No warning, nothing.
What happened in Black neighborhoods was just straight up genocidal.

Tear gas fired without warning into streets with people just going about their business.

Kids running out of houses barefoot and screaming, blinded by gas.
Tear gas is a hormone disrupter and abortifacient.

They gassed entire Black neighborhoods.

They shot grandmas doing Sunday shopping in the face with rubber bullets.

They are fucking dangerous and out of control.
@CouncilmemberJG
@HelenGymAtLarge
@Mr4thDistrict
@KendraPHL
@CMThomasPHL
@CouncilmemberKJ

We need your leadership.

@PPDCommish Outlaw has proven she's learned nothing.

She's shown outright contempt for concerns raised in your police brutality hearings.

Demand her resignation.
We warned folks that this would happen.

We warned that our comrades in Portland had watched her allow her officers to collaborate without consequence with Nazis.

We warned she had a history of bragging about brutalizing protesters.

POC activists in Portland warned, too.
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