Police custodial deaths are the norm not an exception. There are scholars and local activists who have been reading, researching and fighting this for years. When “hashtag for justice” ends there are families that will need the help and a system that needs to be remade.
I hope the brutal deaths of these men is not reduced to a media circus that will move on to the next tragedy. Defer to those who have been fighting and studying this for years. There is much to educate ourselves. I will use this thread to add resources. Please suggest others.
The @detsolnet has curated some important conversations. Please follow their work.
Read the @epw thread and the essay
Scaffold of the Rule of Law—Terror Suspects and the Experience of Violence. This link as the extract from @LokaneetaJinee ‘s book and the conversation with her - thepolisproject.com/scaffold-of-th… via @project_polis
Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
If You're New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/
If You're New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/
Today in a conversation @cynstepin said we need to “decolonize policing India, before anything else.” Again listen and take lead from people on the ground.
A legal dissection of the powers and failures of the magistrate
“A report by a consortium of NGOs against custodial torture have released a report in which they say 1,731 people died in custody in India during 2019. This works out to around five custodial deaths a day.”
An in-depth and stellar report by @sandhyaravishan
h/t @SonaliVaid
