Federal prison guards are among the law enforcement being deployed to confront protestors.
People are learning that police officers and correctional officers are not different, and neither is their brutality.
(Thread, Trigger Warning) /1
People are learning that police officers and correctional officers are not different, and neither is their brutality.
(Thread, Trigger Warning) /1
While liberals celebrate charges against police officers who shove protestors, Black and Brown faces slam on walls, floors, gates, bars, tables every day in our prisons and jails. /2
In prison, people cannot “congregate.” A conversation between a few can lead to beaten downs followed by tickets for “unauthorized assembly” or “inciting a riot.” A protest? Nah. Hunger strikes. All punishable by solitary confinement—23 hours a day in a cell. /3
There are no videos. /4
Officers walk the tiers in white hoods. They have Black babies with nooses around their necks tattooed on their arms. Units where beat up squads are stationed are casually referred to as “apartheid blocks.” And that’s in New York. /5
Many formerly incarcerated people are raising and discussing this important parallel. You need to follow them and learn: @akhan1437 @Invictus9816 @tyrrellmuhammad @DonnaHylton @DyjuanTatro @CarventeHernan @AprilGrayson5 @JoshuaBHoe @DarrenMack718 /6
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Don't cry over police violence if you're not crying over the systemic violence.
Don't shout #DefundPolice if you're not also shouting to shutter prisons and jails.
Don't recite talking points if you haven't done the hard work: reimagined justice. /7
Don't shout #DefundPolice if you're not also shouting to shutter prisons and jails.
Don't recite talking points if you haven't done the hard work: reimagined justice. /7
I’ll add a few more advocates you should follow generally: @MrJohnnyPerez @Vivian_Nixon_WW @dwaynebetts @iamvidalguzman @roywaterman4 @bm_mansamusa @painethepoet @lawbartley
