,
9 tweets,
5 min read
Read on Twitter
Thread! CW: police violence
Friends, you know I don’t share violent content often but I’m sharing video of a #MadisonWI black disabled high school student who was assaulted by police. Read the thread for the longer narrative courtesy of @AboutFreedomInc
Friends, you know I don’t share violent content often but I’m sharing video of a #MadisonWI black disabled high school student who was assaulted by police. Read the thread for the longer narrative courtesy of @AboutFreedomInc
Earlier this week, a Black high school student with a mental disability, who attends West High School, was failed by @MMSDschools and assaulted by @madisonpolice officers.
West High School staff called the cops on the Black disabled student (I haven’t heard why). The student left and went home. The cops came to the student’s home and violently arrested them. The student was cooperative, but that did not stop the violence.
The Black student was slammed, made to lay face down with 3 cops on top of them. Then, as the video shows, a 4th cop then came to the Black student, placed a hood over their head & hit them in the face 3 times while the student was being held down by 3 the others.
There is video of the incident because the student’s home had cameras which the cops clearly didn’t know about. @AboutFreedomInc condemns MPD for this violence. Freedom, Inc. condemns MMSD for using cops against disabled students.
Freedom Inc is actively working for just schools for Black students, disabled students, & especially Black disabled students by calling for: #NoCopsinSchool, Investment in Youth of Color (especially Black & disabled youth) and community control over schools and safety.
#DisabilityJustice friends & everyone invested in justice, please retweet this thread. This just occurred and has not even made local news yet. Amplifying this story will ensure there is attention to the failures & violence of Madison schools & police.
This is the second major event of violence against black disabled students here in Madison if folks recall me sharing the story of the middle school student whose braids were ripped from her head by a school official.
I will post updates as I get them. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackDisabledLivesMatter #DisabilitySolidarity #Disability #PoliceBrutality #Madison #Wisconsin
