Thread by @monaeltahawy

1. Police in England did this to a woman protesting the abduction & murder of a woman by a police officer
2. It is especially shocking to many because both the murdered woman & the woman in this picture are white
3. Fuck the police everywhere
📷 Photograph by @jackhillphoto

I explain more here in analyzing the Jan 6 insurrection in the US: “She never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home.” feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

The police protect the State and property.

There is a hierarchy of protection: the further we are from wealthy, white, cisgender, heterosexual, able bodied men we are, the least likely we are to be protected.

I don’t want to be protected. Protection is conditional. I want patriarchy to stop protecting violent cis men. I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free of violent cis men (video from April 2020) 🎥 @rerutled

I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.

Prisons around the world are full of women who fight back against cis men’s violence and the streets are full of the men who assaulted them. feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…

Ask yourself:
- who do you usually see police arresting
- who do you expect the police to protect
- why do you think the police will protect you
- why do you think the police “over there” (other countries) are violent fucks & why you don’t think they’re violent fucks “over here”

And why do you expect the police to NOT HURT YOU*

*who is “you”?

Who do the police “protect?” #SayHerName #BreonnaTaylor

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