Thread by @monaeltahawy

November 2011: back home in #NYC with both my arms in casts, waiting for a friend when a man of colour pointed to my casts & asked what happened. I explained #Egyptian riot police had broken my arms.

He turned around, pulled up his shirt and showed me his back. Fuck the police

Every person of colour in #NYC who would ask me what happened to my arms, would respond with a story of how they or a relative had also been brutalized by police. e.g. nurse at clinic before my surgery told me police brutalized her brother & cousin. Fuck the police.

And this, this: a replica of what police did during #Jan25 and in so many other countries where they brutalize. And when I said Fuck the police 👇🏽 so many from around the word said it too

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1266953362702045184?s=21

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1266953362702045184

Same #NYPD which in 1999 killed Amadou Diallo - 41 shots - outside his own #NYC apartment building.

Directly connect that to police who killed #BreonnaTaylor as she slept in her own bed in her own home in #Louisville in March 2020.

#BlackLivesMatter
#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor