Thread by @radfagg

This is the argument police depts. nationally are relying on as demands to #DefundPolice mount: That cutting police depts. is a racial justice issues because it will disproportionately impact officers of color. #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

It's the exact argument #LoriLightfoot made shamefully in the NYT weeks ago, insisting that jobs in the police dept. were one of the only paths to middle-classness for Black and brown Chicagoans. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Forget the fact that this logic (which acknowledges that lower ranking and rookie officers are disproportionately Black and brown) is already admitting the structural racism inherent within police depts. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife

Forget the other side of the argument--that losing Black and brown officers will result in more harm to Black and brown communities interacting with police--has long been debunked. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife psmag.com/social-justice…

What's more offensive is that the bodies arguing defunding police will hurt POC workers are the same ones constantly closing schools, clinics, hospitals in those same communities, disproportionately impacting Black and brown teachers, nurses, staff. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice

They're the same bodies rushing to reopen their cities and states for the sake of the economy, knowing full well Black and brown communities will be the ones facing a spike in #COVID19 cases and deaths as a result. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife

If people like Seattle and Chicago's mayors cared and Black and brown families, communities, workers, they would cease all austerity measures. They would #CancelRent, introduce/support #RentControl, and end all evictions. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife

They would end all interaction between ICE and other law enforcement. They would support reparations ordinances, and the redistribution of resources to the neighborhoods mostly frequently robbed of them. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DefendBlackLife

They demand to #DefundPolice fundamentally requires creating alternatives to keep communities safe, fed, supported. That becoming a police officer is (ostensibly) the only realistic way for Black and brown people to escape poverty is literally part of the problem. #AbolishPolice

#DefundPolice and create jobs that don't perpetuate state violence. Defund police and fund free education/vocational training. Defund police and fund housing, healthcare, teachers, nurses, counselors, after school programs. These are better ways to fight poverty. #AbolishPolice