...the meme is racist. Not the murder. Not the coerced confessions. Not the unjust decades long prison sentences. Not the abuse. Not the brutality. Not the murder. The meme. Got it.
The meme. Not human life. My bad. Apologies.
“Chicago agrees to pay up to $19.8 million to settle the cases of pardoned #deathrow inmates Leroy Orange, Stanley Howard, Madison Hobley and Aaron Patterson, who allegedly were tortured into confessions while in the custody of Burge & his detectives.”chicagotribune.com/news/ct-jon-bu…
But, once in the class, students quickly made connections between the torture cases of the nineteen-seventies & eighties & recent stories of police abuse, including their own firsthand encounters;google.com/amp/s/www.newy…
“Particularly in communities of color, where students have had their own experiences with police, and at the high-school level, where there are actual police officers in the schools, this is not just history,” Jen Johnson, the chief of staff at the Chicago Teachers Union, said.
Miss me with the “racist meme.” Talk about the real issue. The manufacturing of outrage? There’s real real outage abt real racism & injustice.
...but, while we at it: Chicago has spent $642 million on police-related legal claims since 2004.thenation.com/article/archiv…
“Such bonds hv been crucial for the city of Chicago, which has been plagued with police violence and misconduct lawsuits over the last couple of decades. In 2017, Chicago took out $225 million in general obligation bonds to pay off police settlement debts”bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“If the CPD is addressing criminal behavior, there are other ways to address those concerns without asking every person [to] show an ID card to enter their own block,” Yohnka added.
“Our current public health crisis should not be used as cover for heavy-handed policing targeting communities of color.”chicago.suntimes.com/2020/3/31/2120…
data released by the #CPD shows that just 20% of arrests during the first few days of unrest were for looting-related crimes, contradicting earlier claims by CPD that looting made up the majority of arrests that weekend. chicagoreporter.com/chicago-police…
A new surveillance video shows Chicago police officers pushing and dragging a student down a set of stairs at Marshall High School on the West Side before punching her and shocking her with a stun gun multiple times.google.com/amp/s/chicago.…
