ACAB (formerly G Floyd) - Tyre Nichols video released, it's bad

[LouisCyphre]

You’ll have to walk me through that.

[LouisCyphre]

@JohnnyTruant

let me get on your level

Really?

[anon10396289]

You guys can’t even be bothered to link to the posts you think address that question? I think I’ve read both threads and I have no idea what you’re talking about.

[anon10396289]

@JohnnyTruant

Keeed, and you, are saying that you think we need police and the justice system the way it is right now because murderers would go free otherwise.

No? I already said:

@anon10396289

How would I reform the police? End the drug war for starters. Demilitarize the police, both in equipment and in mindset. Increase funding for social workers who can deal with cases of mental health crises and drug addiction, which can help the police focus more on policing rather than being armed poorly trained social workers. Many of the reforms catface mentioned below your post also make sense to me.

[tabbaker]

https://unstuckpolitics.com/t/george-floyd-uprisings-fighting-fascism-bringing-guns-to-knife-fights/2518/3175?u=tabbaker

[anon10396289]

I’ll read it, but this font is PROBLEMATIC

[StimAbuser]

Not sure if posted before but cops laughing and fist bumping while watching the footage of them assaulting the 73 year old woman with dementia.

Karen Garner Arrest - Horrific Highlight Reel from Booking Area

[anon10396289]

If re-linking to things you think are relevant to my points is too much work, then I’m not sure how much you can criticize my lack of interest in learning. You don’t seem to have much of an interest in educating people about your position.

And this is a discussion forum, linking to a list of 98 articles, videos, and podcasts isn’t great. It’s like the super sized version of did you watch the four hour youtube lecture?

[6ix]

@NotBruceZ

I start with the assumption that there is general agreement on the ideas that there should be laws and that those laws should be enforced.

[6ix]

You all are being unfair to Ked. He voted NO in NBZ’s poll ffs. It’s possible to think somebody is thoroughly incorrect without assigning them nefarious motives. It’s what I do all the time when somebody thinks and feels something different than me. They’re obviously incorrect and I just wait for them to discover the magic of how much better it is to be correct.

[MysteryConman]

Perhaps you don’t have a lack of interest in learning about abolition. What is the best abolitionist book, article, or speech that you’ve consumed during your course of learning?

[MysteryConman]

This may be a helpful framing for those seeking to understand abolition.

Despite its increased salience in contemporary racial justice platforms, abolition—as a mode of mobilization and social change directed at the criminal legal system and elsewhere—remains widely oversimplified and misunderstood. Abolitionist movements find their origin in W.E.B. Du Bois’s notion of “abolition democracy.” Du Bois posited that the relics of slavery persisted after Emancipation because white lawmakers and vigilantes thwarted newly freed Black citizens’ efforts to build democratic institutions that would allow them full participation in America’s social and economic life. Contemporary abolitionists thus organize to “fully abolish the oppressive conditions produced by slavery.” In the criminal legal contexts, abolitionists have powerfully articulated how phenomena from mass incarceration to police violence both originate from and perpetuate the subjugation and brutality of chattel slavery. Abolitionists thus seek both to abolish prisons and policing as relics of slavery, and to build up new institutions that will both make these criminal legal systems unnecessary and replace them with alternatives that facilitate human flourishing.

[Smacc_25]

https://mobile.twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1386736645945405447

[6ix]

@anon46587892

I have posted dozens of links and you haven’t read any of them.

@6ix

You all are being unfair to Ked.

goddamit was my grunch too fast and loose?

[anon10396289]

police abolition or abolition abolition? I read Frederick Douglass’s autobiography in school, that was pretty good. I read a vox dot com article on police abolition that was quite a bit less informative.

Linking to a list of 98 different things isn’t a productive move to promote discussion on a forum. Neither is saying you didn’t read any of my other links, why would I bother linking to something now. Just tell me to go fuck myself, that’s a more honest way to say the same thing. Although greg oreo did actually link to that vox dot com article, but I don’t think I read it through that link.

[6ix]

@anon46587892

In 1965, the U.S. homicide clearance rate was 91 percent. By 2017, it had dropped to 61.6 percent, one of the lowest levels in the world.

We really don’t want to think about how and why police were so successful catching criminals back in the day.

[6ix]

“Go grab a Black. If you can’t find a Black, grab a stabby Irishman or swarthy Italian.”

[Smacc_25]

Going to put this here because it’s another repression tactic by the establishment
Media

• Its good to dunk on the NYT

https://mobile.twitter.com/SiyandaWrites/status/1386367685286584322

https://mobile.twitter.com/SiyandaWrites/status/1386367709525458945

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[6ix]

@LouisCyphre

@JohnnyTruant

let me get on your level

Really?

@JohnnyTruant

@LouisCyphre

Does the police need to solve 100% of murders to justify their existence?

Yeah really.

The problem I have with this forum, and this is most likely my problem, not anyones elses, is that everybody acts like it’s a public forum (it is in theory) but it’s actually a private, intimate forum (in practice). That’s why I post here. If I wanted a public forum I’d post on twitter with all those screeching maniac and lunatics, and I get how and why posting tones and tactics differ in such a forum.

Nobody has to or should have to be turnt to 11 at all times.

[6ix]

No but srsly do you know how dumb people on twitter are? I don’t mean maga chuds or whatever, I mean people who you ideologically agree with on everything. Dumb as boxes of hammer heads. You people here have truly spoiled me.