capypokoymal quoted Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive …
Content warning police brutality
"[George Floyd] suffocated with a cop kneeling on his neck for... 10 minutes. If one person woulda thrown a brick at that cop, if one person woulda thrown a coca-cola can, he might have got off his neck and might be alive today. We have been so programmed into believing that violence doesn't accomplish anything, that it only begets other violence, that we fail to take steps to defend ourselves, because we believe that we will lose."
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Black Panther 21
— Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day, Shanice McBean (Page 162)
keep thinking about shit like that.
and i can't put myself in foot of usians because that those cops would just shoot anything!
but still, how can you look at a human being killed and doing nothing but filming?