As the media starts quoting the police's press statements, REMEMBER📢#CopsLie all the time. "Whenever there is a killing of Black people by police, the police immediately claim they had reasonable fear for their lives." -@rigodis & I wrote this last year. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
#CopsLie "to justify violating constitutional protections and due process of Black and brown communities, and they do this with impunity...Perhaps most disturbing of all is when these lies are used to absolve the police of murder." -me and @rigodis gothamgazette.com/opinion/9594-e…
The same old arguments for police reform will get recycled. Don't fall for it.
https://twitter.com/CriticalRace/status/1381484721364987905?s=20
The "police could tase instead of shoot Black people" argument is awful🛑George Floyd and Eric Garner was killed w/out a gun. “The surest way of reducing police violence is to reduce the power of the police, by cutting budgets and the number of officers.”
nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opi…
nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opi…
Can we stop trying to "reimagine" varying degrees of police violence? As @dereckapurnell writes "Systems of oppression, like slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration, must be reduced and abolished — not reimagined."
nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opi…
nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opi…
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