Not only did Uvalde police knowingly allow the massacre of 19 children, they openly lied about it, obstructed the state investigation, and are threatening journalists uncovering the truth (doing their jobs).
Have I mentioned it’s the whole prison industrial complex — and not just the cops? The prosecutors, the judges, the jails and prisons — they’re not just complicit.
As we spread info on the corruption of the Uvalde police and DA, and struggle to compute how one nation could be filled with so much hate and violence:
Far-right extremists are using their platforms to *urge* their young followers to copycat the massacre
I spoke with @kamaufranklin, who co-founded @CommunityMvt after years with @MXGMNyc in NYC, about Cop City in Atlanta and what it means for liberation movements in the US and worldwide
“We’ve got to get to a place in our movement where we’re winning some of these struggles, but we can only have that when the lulls happen and we’re not falling apart”
@kamaufranklin “You will catch hell if you continue to work on this project. It will be the hardest work you’ve ever done” - @kamaufranklin to the city, corporations and developers behind Cop City
Want to #StopCopCity? Here’s what *you* can do — wherever you live
Across the country, police violence cases are settled USING TAXPAYER MONEY.
A March 22 @washingtonpost investigation confirmed $3.2+ billion spent in just 10 years to ‘resolve’ 40,000 claims at 25 of the US’s largest police and sheriff’s departments
The person seen on video getting his head smashed in by three cops in Arkansas?
*He* is facing charges of terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, 2nd-degree battery, trespassing, aggravated assault, and possession of an instrument of crime
The perpetrators? Still employed
If you’re confused, read this thread on wandering cops