1/ There was an attack against a 61 year old Asian man, currently hospitalized. He was in East Harlem collecting cans in a shopping cart. The news coverage has been local and all NYPD-focused. These attacks are heartbreaking, but carceral approaches to violence is not the answer. 2/ Policing is not the solution to anti-Asian attacks. It does not address root causes. We need and deserve so much more than what criminalization and prosecution offers us.
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For the "What can I do?" crowd.
Organizing is a skillset and hard work, but it's also not mystical or out of reach. After a year of mainstream media covering protests, defund the police, support/donate to grassroots orgs, volunteer w mutual aid, you can start there... Protests work-don't let anybody tell you otherwise. "Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests."
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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…

There is no justice or accountability to be found in the same criminal legal system and policing apparatus that killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and now #DaunteWright. "Enough. We can’t reform the police. The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and the police." - @prisonculture
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