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liberalsarecool · 10 months

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Sensible police reform. #BlackLivesMatter

#black lives matter #police reform

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socialjusticeinamerica · 3 months

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#police reform #law enforcement reform #police brutality

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ramsesja · 7 months

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Evidence shows that better training doesn't lead to better officers. It is a persistent myth and narrative that prevents real, necessary reform when it comes to policing and public safety.

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autismvampyre · 6 days

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the fucking arrogance and blatant nationalism in the way europeans declare polce brutality a "US problem" as if americans are the only people with a corrupt system

my leftist swedish mother actually agrees with ACAB with the addendum that it's only the Americans, we're not like that here

let the brutal forced used on greta thunberg, a swedish teenager protesting climate change, by dutch police be a testament to the lie of european "democracy" and how it is democracy in name and nothing else.

let the immigrant kids who are brutalized, humiliated and oppressed every day in sweden by cops who "protect and serve" serve as a reminder of how incredibly flawed we are.

let the 700% increase in death by cops in sweden in the last ten years show us how we are no better than the americans we condemn.

we are not better. you are buying into propaganda if you think this doesn't apply to your country too

#nydias post #swedenposting #police brutality #swedish politics #sweblr #police violence #european politics #world politics #police reform #greta thunberg #tw xenophobia #tw rasicm #immigration #immigration rights #human rights #leftist politics #activism #my moms best friend is training to become a cop and im fully cutting contact with her.

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 3 months

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Monsters.

#police reform #ACAB #police brutality #flasbang #republicans and cops go hand in hand

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decolonize-the-left · 1 year

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Was looking up updates on Tyre Nichols and decided to click on the link for his lawyer, just wanted to see other cases he had and judge whether or not he'd be helpful or harmful.

And was linked to another case from last June with an update from this month that also deserves attention.

“People from my community have been coming to us for years talking about how they torture people in the back of paddy wagons,” said Scot Esdaile, according to the Associated Press. “They put people in the back of the paddy wagon; they go real fast and then they slam on the brakes.”

Mr Crump has similarly raised allegations that the driver could perhaps be more culpable than the force is letting on, saying he suspects speeding or texting while driving could’ve been a factor, and is thus demanding that the police department be transparent in the investigation.

The Independent has reached out to the New Haven Police Department for comment on the investigation.

Writing on Twitter on the Fourth of July holiday, Mr Crump highlighted how Mr Cox – an otherwise healthy young man – went from being able to step into the back of the police car on his own to now needing full support to breathe and eat with little hope that he’ll be able to walk again.

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And there was an update recently......Just 4 days after Tyre's murder in fact.

The officers -- Sgt. Betsy Segui and officers Oscar Diaz, Ronald Pressley, Jocelyn Lavandier and Luis Rivera -- were each charged in November 2022 with one count of second-degree reckless endangerment and one count of cruelty to persons

Both charges are misdemeanors and the officers were each released on a $25,000 bond.

[...]Gregory Cerittelli, the attorney for the fifth officer Sgt. Betsy Segui, confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday that Segui will plead not guilty.

"The job of a police officer has become increasingly more difficult in recent years," Cerittelli told ABC News. "Police officers are often required to utilize their best judgment in assessing situations, and are now being judged with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. Our Supreme Court has consistently held this is not the appropriate standard."

[...]The video footage also shows the officers dragging Cox by his feet and throwing him into a wheelchair, which his lawyers said could have exacerbated his already life-threatening injuries.

"[Randy] is essentially quadriplegic. He's in a rehab facility. He can't feed himself, he can't clean himself, he can't relieve himself without assistance," O'Donnell said on Tuesday.

"Randy is going to be left with permanent injuries. The least that can happen to these officers is that they have permanent records," he added.

Cox filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against the city of New Haven and New Haven Police Department officers in September 2022.

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The lawyer saying "remembering to put a seatbelt on people is too high of a standard" "everyone has 20/20 hindsight" like???? About putting on a seatbelt??? What my 8 year old does As Soon as she enters a car cuz even she understands and knows it could be dangerous not to?

The absolute disregard and dismissiveness for Black lives in on full display with this pathetic excuse.

Remember that whatever platitudes they give us don't matter. Platitudes and promises mean nothing.

Firing the 5 cops who hurt Tyre Nichols won't help Randy Cox from New Haven. It won't help any future Randy Coxes and it won't help any future Breonna Taylors.

It's a band-aid. An attempt to look like they care in an attempt appease us all so we stop demanding better, so we stop protesting and rioting for police brutality to end.

....Because it's almost an election year. And a stance more extreme than "thoughts and prayers to everyone except cops who get another $50 billion" just isn't centrist enough to win the majority vote. So police reform and increased budgets will be the response. That's already the response. That's what they want us to accept.

Don't.

Keep protesting. Keep demanding. Keep posting. Don't let this die out.

Don't get complacent.

If change is ever going to happen it's because we will have forced it to. Not because the people in power suddenly decided to have a conscience.

#tyre nichols #randy cox #acab #current events #blm #black lives matter #racism #police brutality #2024 #police reform #abolish police #usa politics

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alex51324 · 2 months

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So I was just thinking about Aaron Bushnell, and how the piece of that story that I just cannot get over is the one first responder yelling, "I don't need guns, I need fire extinguishers," and how if you made a movie and you intercut the scene of the police drawing guns on a burning and dying man, with shots of bombs falling and weapons pointed at the burning and dying city, and had someone yell that, it would be a little too on the nose, but it happened

and then I scrolled down a bit and there was this post about a prisoner in the US donating to relief efforts in Gaza the entire proceeds of 136 hours of prison labor, which came to $17.74

And I don't really have a fully-articulated point, but something about and how that, that is the problem with both American policing and America's response to the crisis in Gaza, that we are bringing guns to situations that need fire extinguishers,

and $17.74 will just about buy a fire extinguisher.

#us politics #prison labor #gaza #police reform

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sofiadragon · 1 year

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Police locked a handcuffed woman on train tracks, and then a train hit her.

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This is an "entertaining" video with much of the body cam footage edited - because I understand some people's nerves can't handle that. The woman survives, but she was hit by a train while locked in the back of a patrol car. She did not walk away.

The lawyer in this video is using body cam footage and info about relevant legal statutes compiled by Audit the Audit and the link to that original video is available if you click through.

The police basically did this to a suspect:

#police brutality #police tw #malicious negligence #police reform #Youtube

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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#all cops are bastards #all cops are pigs #all cops are bad #fuck cops #policing #protesting #police reform #police #killed #feminism #feminist #anarchy

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lavieenavi · 5 months

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Some GIFs I made while studying Animation at uni. The prompt was to think of topics important to us and condense them into short animations.

Police brutality, reformation and defunding, and the (in)justice system

Adopt, don't shop

Fair monetary compensation for one's time

Free and affordable universal healthcare

Creativity and imagination

The value of diverse minds and the right to be different

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ardate · 7 months

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The protest on 23rd of october is fast approaching and so far so many of my friends said they wouldn't go, because they're busy or tired or have something other to do - and I haven't heard of much traction from much of anywhere else

I fear this big multi-union call for protest will be met with a very disappointing amount of support.

This is about police brutality, about reforming the system. About racial profiling. About social justice. It's so important.

But people are weary, and can we fault them really, when they've been rising up at the cost of their rest and pay for literal months? I just hope I'll be proven wrong.

Either way. I know I'll be going.

#france #politics #protests #police brutality #police reform

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liberalsarecool · 9 months

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