#police brutality mention

[cistematicchaos]

Y’know, I always think it’s a little weird seeing those posts about how you should always stim if you feel like stimming, specifically from white people, if only because it’s not safe for a lot of us to stim. I’m not trying to be an ass or something but especially for Black people in the US, stimming is easily deadly in public, even when we’re just kids. 

And like, before someone says it: white people stimming in public isn’t really going to make it less dangerous for Black people. Y'all run around with guns too and it hasn't made that easier for us, so let’s not pretend it will. I dunno. I just wish instead of just encouraging people to stim more that we could also be spending more time addressing and combating police brutality in connection to stimming and ableism in general. I see it in some Black disabled communities and a couple others but not in the general actually-autistic community. 

(Which isn’t shocking ‘cause y’all hate and/or ignore autistics who aren’t white and talk about racism.)

But this shit is important. The cops don't just frequently murder autistic people for things like stimming, they also help parents and "family members" justify murdering and abusing the autistic people under their care. A lot of you deliberately skim over cops’ participation in systemic and social ableism, physically violent ableism in particular, against autistic people in the US, which is probably because then you’re gonna have to talk about its explicit connection with racism and anti-Blackness in particular. 

But if you’re not willing to address that, you don’t really want rights and liberation or whatever for autistic folks. You’re just talking about light and white autistic folks and even then, y’all are still dying so it’s beyond absurd so many of you so determinedly ignore this shit. 

#police brutality mention #anti-Blackness #racism #cops #stimming #autism #actually autistic #disability #ableism #chaos is speaking #tw murder #abuse mention #us politics

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

something something episode 1 of lis2 being a condensed version of all lis1/lis2 starting where lis1 ends.

in the beginning we've got the dates--both games begin in october, with lis1 kicking off on Oct 28, a couple weeks after Storm Day on October 11. lis1 is (technically) contained within a week, while lis2 is spaced out over months on end, unfurling outward from a similar jumping off point as lis1.

both games begin with a powered character whose abilities are trigged by witnessing an act of deadly gun violence against a loved one. in both cases, this reaction in turn brings about further destruction (Daniel's immediate, but smaller scale, and Max's delayed, but much stronger) which shapes the rest of the game's narrative

in lis1, however, that violence is only the beginning of a much larger conspiracy of murder and manipulation, with the question of Chloe Price's shooting bleeding into the disappearance of Rachel Amber and a much larger conspiracy. In lis2, Esteban's death is a brutally simple case of all-American bigotry, kicked off by Brett Foster's casual racism/ableism and culminating in Officer Matthews' police brutality. The whole point is that there's no reason to make it a mystery, because shit like this happens every day.

and yet ep1 of lis2 is still a mystery, in its way, because Sean doesn't know why there was an explosion in Seattle, and Daniel doesn't know where his father is. Both boys pick up on signs that something is off, in a more restrained reflection of Chloe and Max's search for the truth throughout lis1, before both secrets comes out during the final confrontation in the motel room.

There are other visible parallels with Episode 5, like Sean/Max being restrained in a darkened office/Dark Room by a violent man with a brutal ideology and requiring help from an outside source (Daniel/David) to escape. And of course, there's the climatic storm (or "storm") at the end of the episode, with Daniel/Max violently losing control of their abilities with only Sean/Chloe to guide them through it.

unlike Chloe, Sean is able to calm Daniel's storm--but the Diaz brothers are still left with the worst of both lis1 endings, involving both the dead loved one who can't be rescued from Save Arcadia Bay and the destruction and exile left behind from Save Chloe Price. like Chloe and Max in the latter ending, they're seen riding into an unknown future together, overseen by animal guardians--the deer glimpsed in the ruins of Arcadia and the wolves in Sean's story.

the next four episode of lis2 provide an opportunity to answer all the questions we only get glimpses of in a Save Chloe Price reality--what it means to live on the run with havoc in your wake, what it means to really live with/love a person capable of such devastation, what it means to deal with the long-term effects of your own powerlessness in the face of such supernatural forces (which I really want to explore more later).

tl:dr ep1 of lis2 provides a spiritual recap of lis1 to expand and build upon everything discussed in that game in the process of becoming its own powerhouse. it's awesome to witness and I love it so much and I'm glad there are other people out there who do, too.

#life is strange 2 #lis verse #daniel diaz #sean diaz #chloe price #max caulfield #lis parallels #parallels #life is strange #monsters talks life is strange #we are the wolves #pricefield #ep 1 roads #bae over bay #esteban diaz #brett foster #kieran matthews #long post #hank stamper #mark jefferson #dark room #life is strange meta #racism mention #police brutality mention #angst #meta

[jondoe297]

#marquis revera #justice for marquis revera #black lives matter #social justice #petition #petitions #important #police brutality tw #tw police brutality #police brutality cw #cw police brutality #police brutality mention #police violence tw #tw police violence #police violence cw #cw police violence #police violence mention

[androgynealienfemme]

"I'm remembering the busts in the bars in Canada. Packed in the police vans, all the Saturday-night butches giggled and tried to fluff p their hair and switch clothing so they could get thrown in the tank with the feminine women- said it would be like "dyin' and going' to heaven."

We never switched clothing. Neither did our drag queen sisters. We knew, and so did you, what was coming. We needed our sleeves rolled up, our hair sliked back, to live through it. Our hands were cuffed tight behind our backs. Yours were cuffed in front. You loosened my tie, unbuttoned my collar, and touched my face. I saw the pain and fear for me in your face, and I whispered it would be all right. We knew it wouldn't be.

I never told you what they did to us down there - queens in one tank, stone butches in the next- but you knew. One at a time they would drag our brothers out of the cells, slapping and punching them locking the bars behind them fast in case we lost control and tried to stop them- as if we could.

They'd handcuff a brother's wrists to his ankles or chain him, face against the bars. They made us watch.

Sometimes we'd catch the eyes of the terrorized victim, or the soon-to-be, caught in the vise of torture, and we'd say gently, "I'm with you, honey, look at me, stay with me, we'll take you home."

We never cried in front of the cops. We knew we were next.

The next time the cell door opens it will be me they drag out and chain spread eagled to the bars.

Did I survive? I guess I did. But only because I knew I might get home to you.

They let us out, one at a time on Monday morning. No charges. Too late to call in sick to work, no money, hitchhiking, crossing the border on foot, in rumpled clothes, bloody, needing a shower, hurt, scared.

I knew you'd be home if I could get there.

You ran a bath for me with sweet-smelling bubbles. You always laid out a fresh pair fo white BVDs and a t-shirt for me and left me alone to wash off the first layer of shame.

I remember it was always the same. I would put on the briefs, and then I'd just get the t-shirt over my head and you would find some reason to come into the bathroom, to get something or put something away. In a glance you would memorize the wounds on my body like a road map- the gashes, bruises, cigarette burns.

Later, in bed, you held me gently, touching me everywhere, the tenderest touches reserved for the places I was hurt, knowing each and every sore place- inside and out.

You didn't flirt with me right away, knowing I wasn't feeling confident enough to be sexy. But later you coaxed my pride back out again, showing me how much you wanted me. You knew melting the stone again would take you weeks."

-”Letter to a fifties femme from a stone butch" Leslie Feinberg, The Persistent Desire, (Edited by Joan Nestle) (1992)

#leslie feinberg #the persistent desire #lesbian #butch #butch lesbian #lgbt #lgbt history #lesbian history #queer history #gay history #drag history #transgender #trans history #police brutality mention #rape mention #this is a heavy one #lesbian lit

[kidical]

how are we feeling about the police getting a woman hit by a fucking train! what a creative form of police brutality !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im absolutely fucking disgusted. 

#police brutality mention #ask to tag

[meatcute]

i will say the "acab includes [x] police" thing pisses me off so fucking much, i see any variation of that phrase and see red. (also like "kill the cop inside you" used incorrectly.) you are taking a phrase about police violence (especially antiblack police violence) and making it about discourse shit, as if the actions of police havent literally ended lives and ruined families and made people afraid for their safety

#screaming nightmare era #antiblack violence mention #police brutality mention

[brettdoesdiscourse]

"This debate" bestie, you argued that cops killing unarmed black people weren't that bad, actually.

#racism tw #racism mention #police brutality tw #police brutality mention #racism #police brutality #social discourse #discourse #acab #anti police #anti cop #abolish police #brett does discourse

[sporkberries]

Whenever someone says “but the joker” to say why batman should kill criminals it reminds me of how in Gotham Central corrupt cops literally use the jokers existence to justify doing police brutality

#anywaysss #police brutality mention #batman should not kill anybody #spork says stuff #dc #batman

[opalsiren]

maybe it's not my place but there's something yuckyfeeling about watching fellow white women making balaclavas trendy esp when in so many parts of the world it's illegal for hibaji women to veil. not to mention how black and brown ppl are subject to police brutality simply for wearing hoodies, how there would be intense public outcry if a brown man made a tiktok with a balaclava tutorial. maybe it's not that deep and ppl just want to be warm in the winter but i can't help but think of the double standard even of like the perception of nuns wearing habits in predominantly christian countries vs that of muslim women who choose to wear the hijab. idk idk idk idk

#it's like. we as white women get to be 'edgy' with balaclavas and 'boxer braids' where poc are demonised for wearing their cultural styles #i don't want to imply that any white person that wants to wear a scarf on their head to keep warm is a disgusting racist but i do think #there needs to be a conversation about the double standard #.txt #anti blackness #police brutality mention #islamophobia

[deithe]

twitter losing their minds cause kneecap got a mural in belfast of a burning psni jeep, cause it's apparently 'sectarian'. oh so you're admitting that the psni isn't there to protect all people living in northern ireland and is just another militarist force backed by unionists? that the psni is heavily and deeply historically tied to unionism and unionists and anything done to combat police brutality in ni is sectarian on the republican side apparently? really showing yer fucking cards there fellas

even then, kneecap is a fucking irish language rap group that satirizes the violent divisions between working class republicans and unionists, and their real goal is to building working class solidarity between these two communities to fight back against the establishment in ni and how young working class people, wether republican or unionist, and to show that they are used by the upper class to stoke divides and use as soldiers in a culture war?

how can that mural be sectarian when it is only opposing the psni? it is anti-police, not anti-unionist? the psni is a discriminatory violent organization that fails to protect northern irish people they do not see as worthy, such as noah donohue, a young black nothern irish boy found dead in a storm drain, which was labeled as 'no foul play' and hiding evidence from the public and his mother which could prove otherwise. or when two psni officers were found to have taken derogatory photos of a suicide victim, including staging his body in various ways, exposing his body by removing clothes, degrading him, and sharing those images on social media with the caption 'another taig bites the dust'.

if the mural is indeed sectarian, then that means to go against the psni is to go against unionists in the north. there is no such thing as a 'diverse and open policing force', there is only a policing force' which imposes centuries long rules of colonialism, sectarianism and discrimination against those the psni deem as unworthy.

#the insane takes coming from polictians in the noth rn....like full mask off kinds of stuff #thuisceart na heireann #police brutality mention #kneecap #nothern ireland #eire

[cursedpinterest]

im not gonna show any images, but i found someone’s pinterest board for like beyoncé’s albums aesthetic, and the thumbnail they chose for their board was a pic of a group of cops with tactile gear and those big shields with what looks like blood on the ground like…. are you really using police brutality as an aesthetic???

#this is the same person who i posted previously with the crazy core aesthetic boards #police brutality mention #racism tw #ask to tag

[blackcultureis]

"Black-on-Black crime" is just crime

read that again.

when a crime is committed from a white person to another white person, we don't call that white-on-white crime. we don't use it as an excuse to justify police brutality or racial profiling. black people are not inherently more violent than people of any other race. let's not use these dangerous myths as an excuse to ignore the roots of the issue: systemic racism and poverty. crime is crime. it needs to be addressed no matter who commits it.

#black lives matter #black on black crime #crime #african american #america #united states of america #police brutality mention #ask to tag #systemic racism #blm #black people #blktumblr #stereotypes #myths

[daloy-politsey]

Anyway, a woman was literally killed by police so that concerns me more than whatever western powers say or do about it which of course is always going to be shitty.

#murder mention #death mention #violence mention #police brutality mention #swears cw

[dragonofthedepths]

Not quite a wrong number AU 5.4.22

Blamed for something he didn't do, Piers gets jumped by cops outside of Spikemoth, beaten and and taken into custody.

When it comes time for his one phone call, instead of calling anyone who knows him but won't be able to help, Piers decides to mess with everyone by calling Champion Leon like they're friends. (His phone number is available online.)

He's never met the man but it'll be worth the payback from the cops when they figure that out to witness their momentary horror that they might have attacked a friend of Leon's.

And then Leon decided it doesn't matter that he's never met Piers, the phone call is enough for them to count as friends in his book.

And now Piers is friends with a celebrity. Because he called him from jail.

Day (370/100) of my #infinitedaysofwriting @the-wip-project Yesterday's post, late because it got deleted three times and I had to keep re-writing it.

#Pokémon Sword and Shield #Gym Leader Piers #Champion Leon #Pokémon #fix tags later #∞daysofwriting #scribblings from the deep #Uh... #police brutality tw #police brutality mention #there are no good cops #Zenigata is the only good cop #No he doesn't appear but I think it's funny so I'm gonna use that tag

[transmasc-wizard]

h hey Nico search up “I can’t breath” by Matt taibbi.

i am reading the blurb but the words literally arent going in all i can tell is its abt police brutality i think. i do see the line "[name] was neither villain or victim" whiiiiich is not . a sentence. that im psyched to see. since in that sort of situation there is in fact a villain (cop!) and there is in fact a victim (person cop is hurting!). but who knows maybe i am missing context

#the goodreads font is too close together and serif-y i cant Understand it with only 2 braincells #asks #bat wherearetheplants #police brutality mention

[butchfalin]

funnily enough a lot of the cop!kira fics ive seen are ......, shumako

its just so tone deaf though like hi. hello. akira got the piss beat out of him by cops so hard that it still affects him in the SEQUEL game. he still holds a grudge. u really think hes gonna be like Yeah I'll Go To The Pig Academy. Bitches Be Calling Me Animal Farm. NO!!!!!!

HE WOULD NOT DO THAT!!!!!! that's such bullshit .... i have never seen that because i do not read shumako. And i guess i will continue to not read shumako if this is the case! 🤢

#asks #ive read one fic for them i think and it's just because akira was a trans girl and i was like Lesbianism ???? For me???????? #police brutality mention