Want answers on what it means to #AbolishThePolice and #AbolishPrisons?

I interviewed @equalityAlec of @CivRightsCorps, and I don't say this often but this is a *must watch*

I interviewed @equalityAlec about his work ending the criminalization of poverty, the history of policing and prisons, the real motives behind reforms like body cams, arguments against #DefundThePolice, what abolition really means, and...

What you can do in your own community:
"No society in recorded history of the modern world ever attempted to take so many human beings from the schools, and families, and jobs, and medical care, and children, and put them into government run cages" - @equalityAlec

"If they are determining who's in a jail cell, separated from their kids, and who's home with their family on the basis of how much money they have, how can we trust anything else they're doing?" - @equalityAlec

"That is the kind of evil we're dealing with... The intentional brutality these companies are inflicting"

@equalityAlec talks profiteering off of overpolicing and mass incarceration, and joins @BiancaTylek and @WorthRises in calling out @TomGores, owner of the @DetroitPistons
"What's radical is the incredible amount of money we are currently spending"

I asked @equalityAlec what we should say when liberals tell us they agree with #DefundThePolice... but we need to change our language

"Are we ever going to get to a world where we can guarantee that every single person will be safe every single day? No, and that shouldn't be our goal, and the police are never going to get us to that goal in the first place" - @equalityAlec on arguments against abolition
"The number one rule in how we think about these systems is: is the particular reform that I'm being offered shrinking the size and power of the system? If it's not doing that, it's not worth supporting" - @equalityAlec



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6 May
TW: rape, police violence

“The detectives took turns raping her in the backseat as the van cruised the dark streets and as she sat handcuffed, crying and repeatedly telling them ‘No.’ Between assaults… the van pulled over so the cops could switch drivers”

#AbolishThePolice

🧵
New York is one of 35 states where cops can evade sexual assault charges by claiming it was consensual

Some states have recently closed this loophole

Most have not, “because it has been politically unpopular to push laws that target cops and anger their powerful unions”
In most of the states that do not outlaw sex between on-duty cops and detainees, an officer can claim consent and face only a misdemeanor “official misconduct” charge, which carries a maximum one-year sentence
Read 9 tweets
2 May
“State officials will continue to violate people’s rights with impunity”

Ron Keine was convicted and sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder in 1974

He was exonerated in 1976, 9 days before his execution

#EndQualifiedImmunity 🧵
Misconduct in Ron Keine’s case was “so egregious” the prosecutor lost his license and several officers were fired - @innocence

Yet Ron’s lawsuit was dismissed — because of qualified immunity

And Ron’s case isn’t rare

Qualified immunity enables police brutality and corruption
Qualified immunity is a judicial doctrine from the 1960s that allows public officials, like cops, to act with impunity — even when they break the law

And as we know, the very people empowered to uphold the law break it every day — and laugh about it

nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/…
Read 7 tweets
29 Apr
Derek Chauvin was involved in 5 police killings before suffocating George Floyd to death

But Chauvin's far from the only cop to get away with murder.

In fact, those who *are* fired just get hired somewhere else.

It's endemic.

Why #DefundThePolice then #AbolishThePolice?

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Even those who still believe the fallacy that police and prisons make us safer understand that police accountability is critical — and "wandering cops" are a major concern

A 2020 Yale Law study found 1,100 terminated cops re-hired and walking the streets in Florida alone
The national decertification database isn't public, isn't checked by most depts before hiring, and doesn't include some of the biggest states, including California and New Jersey

This sorry excuse for transparency has led to numerous deaths

St. Ann, Missouri, is a prime example
Read 18 tweets
18 Dec 20
Cops solve 2% of major crimes

Cops commit 1/3 of stranger murders

40% of cops *admit* to abusing their partners

Cops do not stop crime, and interactions with cops increase the likelihood of future criminality

Want links? Visit tenforjustice.com

#AbolishThePolice
In Portland:

Cops beat #BlackLivesMatter protesters

Protect Proud Boys

And wait hours or *days* to respond to 911 calls

And people still claim cops “serve and protect”?

@alex_zee has more:

portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/…

#DefendPDX
“Study after study shows that a living wage, access to holistic health services and treatment, educational opportunity, and stable housing are more successful in reducing crime than more police or prisons." - @popdemoc, ‘Freedom to Thrive’

#AbolishThePolice #AbolishPrisons
Read 4 tweets
17 Dec 20
We call her Plutocrat Pelosi.

We call her Platitude Pelosi.

But we’d rather there just be #NoMorePelosi.

This crumbling statue does not care about us.
This could’ve been us...

#NoMorePelosi
Read 5 tweets
14 Aug 20
Yall ready, now!?

I been saying this since April.

#GeneralStrike #GeneralStrike2020

For food
For shelter
For safety
For jobs
For justice
Hit em from all angles:

1. #GeneralStrike (see the West Coast port shutdown)

2. Protests in all 50 states

3. Rallies at lawmakers’ homes (a la @4aPeoplesParty)

4. Demands delivered to lawmakers’ inboxes (a la @TENDEMANDS)

5. Votes for downballot progressives (like @CoriBush) Image
“Our protesters are beaten, our voices unheard, our workers jobless, our hospitals full, our dead piled high, our pantries empty, our Senators complicit, our mail undelivered, their private jet soaring while our votes go uncounted” - @KaptainKaosATX

#GeneralStrike #RevolutionNow
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