Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday. We see all of you in the streets and on the internet saying FUCK 12 loud and clear, and we love you.
Because of the noise the people have been making, all 4 officers involved in the murder of #GeorgeFloyd have finally been charged. But the work is not done. #Fuck12Friday 
In the past week, thousands of people protesting against police brutality were themselves brutalized by police in the streets, and arrested. We demand that these protestors be freed immediately. #Fuck12Friday
People are still suffering in jails and prisons during a pandemic that makes incarceration lethal. We demand: #FreeThemAll
We demand the defunding and the abolition of police. You may have heard that Lori Lightfoot is calling for police reforms within 90 days. Don't be fooled. #Fuck12Friday
You might wonder: what's the problem with more officer training programs, more body cameras, more "community policing"? Aren't those steps toward police abolition? They aren't. #Fuck12Friday
All those suggested reforms move to put more dollars into the pockets of the police, when they already use 40% of the city's budget. #Fuck12Friday
You might have seen this graphic going around: 8cantwait.org The problem with 8CantWait is, training cops differently is just an excuse to give them more money to do what they've always done: protect property, not people #Fuck12Friday
Another problem with changing policing methods is that WE KNOW POLICE DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES. They break their own rules constantly. #Fuck12Friday
The problem isn't police methods, it's the police. PERIODT. Instead of reforms, here are steps that actually move us towards abolition [reformist reforms]. Instead of giving cops more money and crossing our fingers, we need to focus on defunding the police. #Fuck12Friday
Our demands are not pipe dreams. WE ARE WINNING. Look at what's been happening around the country this week: #Fuck12Friday
Eric Garecetti proposed cutting $100-150 million of LAPD's budget and reinvesting it in communities of color. This is not NEARLY enough money, but it's a step in the right direction. #Fuck12Friday
The University of Minnesota AND Minneapolis public schools just terminated their contracts with the police after protests this week. We can do it too. #Fuck12Friday
Portland Public Schools also just announced that it would "discontinue the use of school resource officers in its schools" in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder. Other cities, like Denver, are considering the same #Fuck12Friday
This week brought more demands for CPS to get cops out of our schools--the presence of police officers has been proven to make students LESS safe, not more. And CPS could use that extra $33 million for counselors and other resources for students. #Fuck12Friday
Speaking of budgets, did you know we spend 1.75 BILLION a year on the police? That's 4 million a day. We want to hear your visions for abolition. If you were the mayor, what would you do with that money? Here are some of our ideas... #Fuck12Friday
We could END HOMELESSNESS IMMEDIATELY: In 2018 there were ~77k homeless people in Chicago. Our police budget could give every one of those people $23k a year. #Fuck12Friday
FREE PUBLIC HOUSING: We could use the money to build ~4000 units of city-owned free housing each year. Within 20 years, Chicago could have enough free housing to permanently eradicate homelessness #Fuck12Friday
END HUNGER: One in ten Chicagoans are food insecure. The police budget is more than SIX TIMES what we'd need to end hunger in Cook County, by @feedingamerica's estimate #Fuck12Friday
FREE HOSPITAL CARE: We could expand the county health system's budget 18 times over, entirely covering the costs of its public hospital system or its Medicaid program. #Fuck12Friday
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: CPD's budget is massive enough to entirely cover the operating expenses of the CTA and have $300M left over to expand routes to underserved communities #Fuck12Friday
REPARATIONS: We could give $2k a year to every Black Chicagoan instead of the police. This is a fraction of what's needed to close the wealth gap, but ending this racist, violent institution and reallocating their funds would be a start. #Fuck12Friday
UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS: We could give at least $5k a year to every Chicago worker unemployed during the Covid-19 pandemic. That's 4x the amount of your stimulus check. #Fuck12Friday
FREE ELECTRICITY: It costs ComEd about $1.3 billion to serve the city of Chicago. With our police budget, we could power the city for free and have $400m left over. #Fuck12Friday
FUND OUR SCHOOLS: Remember that CTU strike last year? By adding our police budget to the new CPS contract, we could meet all of CTU's demands that Lori Lightfoot said were "too expensive" to fulfill for our kids. #Fuck12Friday
If you're one of the thousands that CPD has attacked over the past week, we want to hear from you. Go to blmchi2020uprisings.org to share your story. WE CARE #fuck12friday
Lightfoot wants you to think the people being arrested are thugs and criminals. We know this is exactly the kind of racist rhetoric that mass incarceration is founded on. They are PEOPLE first and foremost, and they are hurting #Fuck12Friday
We know that this story is a lie. We know Damon Williams, Jennifer Pagan, Malcolm London, and #JustinCosby were out here for the struggle and that's all CPD needs to beat you and jail you #Fuck12Friday
We know the focus on "rioters and looters" is an attempt to divide us, because they see our power united and they are afraid #Fuck12Friday
This is the moment to find your movement home. They want us to think we're not powerful, but we got the numbers over them. Fuck the police gangs. We believe that WE WILL WIN. #Fuck12Friday
