THREAD: Marvin D. Scott III has just been killed inside a Texas jail cell after being arrested for possession of marijuana. His story is important. (1)
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After Sandra Bland's death, Texas increased funding for police, sheriffs, and jails. That money was used to hire more cops and jailers, give them raises and overtime, get military weapons and surveillance, and expand racial profiling. More human beings will die. (2)
Marvin Scott's family told reporters that he was working to address mental health issues. But Texas has woeful mental health infrastructure and pays police and jails to be its primary response to illness. (3)
Yesterday, the DA from Houston, Kim Ogg, unleashed a racist rant during testimony at the legislature, using fabrications and lies to argue for more cash bail, more jailing of Black and Brown people, and eventually more money for caging people in grotesque conditions. (4)
A battle is brewing. Big corporations and race-baiting bureaucrats want to spend more money on police and jails because they all profit at every stage. Real people want funding for survivors of harm, mental health, mutual aid, housing, schools, theater, music, athletics, etc. (5)
Whether we support profit and pain or building the infrastructure of human flourishing will determine how many more human beings like Marvin Scott will be killed on the cold concrete floors of government cages. (end)
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