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Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
And if we’re being honest, it’s bigger than posting the suicide hotline too. The conditions we’re living in must be radically changed if we want to see a significant decrease in suicides
Before folks act ignant, I never said don’t share or post the suicide hotline. I’m sayin that a hotline isn’t enough to save lives in the same way that checking on your strong friend or being kind isn’t enough.
Didn’t expect this tweet to take off like this so I’m adding more info. I was made aware, through comments on this thread, that a top suicide hotline is collecting data from people who contact them & giving it to a for-profit company. 👇🏾
TLDR: Abolish capitalism. Seriously. To radically change the conditions we’re living in requires bringing an end to this capitalist system so we can create a society that actually meets everyone’s needs— allowing more folks to thrive instead of survive.

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It’s worth noting that the National Guard (the military) is in Minnesota at the behest of the police. They are there to ensure police & property, not civilians, are safe. They’ve been weaponized, yet again, against Black people living under this oppressive settler colonial state.
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What mutual aid groups, bail funds & radical orgs do we need to be amplifying out of Minnesota right now?
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Apr 12, 2021
Reject these lies too yall. We saw this already when police murdered Oscar Grant in 2009. Johannes Mehserle (cop who murdered Oscar) also tried to say he “meant to use his taser”. We’ve been here before!

(Also, tasers can kill people)
“Reuters documented 1,081 cases through the end of 2018 in which people died after being shocked by police with a Taser, the vast majority of them after 2000. At least 32 percent of those who died were Black, and at least 29 percent were white.”

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Sharing this because I can already see another avenue for reforms to be pushed by politicians calling for “less lethal weapons”. No. We gotta reject that too. Less lethal is still lethal. People have also died from being tased by police.
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In light of Daunte Wright’s murder by police these politicians & police are going to try and tell you that police “need more training”. I can’t urge you enough to reject that. They’ve been getting “more training” for decades. It’s code for: more money.
As someone who was not always an abolitionist and who was deeply reformist and pushed for reforms like body cams, more training etc, I can tell you these things do nothing to disrupt or stop police violence. Ever.
Just as many people around the nation are watching the trial of Dereck Chauvin who murdered George Floyd, Minnesota police murdered a young Black man yesterday miles away from where they stole Floyd’s life.
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