The protests in Philly are over cops murdering a Black man in a mental health crisis. Cops who had shown up to an earlier call by Wallace's family laughed at his suffering. Instead of sending the ambulance Wallace's family called for or providing any assistance, they shot him.
Cops on Wed destroyed the car windows of a Black mom and beat her while she was trying to comply with orders, kidnapped her toddler and used him for racist, fascist propaganda during the protesting over Wallace's murder. But white disabled ppl want us Black ppl to shut up.
It still baffles and enrages me the audacity of the posts I saw after Floyd's death when, after weeks of protests and zero justice, not even an arrest, white disabled ppl were literally telling us to be quiet, we've had our spotlight, and support them. Just them btw.
White disabled ppl had zero intention of speaking up for the disabled Black ppl brutalized and murdered by cops. Even now I don't see anyone with that crass ass DisabledLivesMatter tag speaking out against a disabled Black man's murder. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackDisabledLivesMatter
And before anybody starts with the "oh he had a knife!"
1. Cops seem mighty able to arrest white men actively shooting at them or mass murdering others
2. Wallace's family was trying to deescalate him
3. Being ill isn't a crime and crimes are supposed to be prosecuted
So yeah, a few cops could have and should have taken Wallace to the hospital instead of murdering him. If bikers injuring cops and civilians with a gang war can be arrested and go to court I think a Black man can go to the hospital alive for his mental health crisis
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