important and encouraging
Found a great (free) documentary on the Freedom House Ambulance Service here- https://www.wqed.org/freedomhouse/ (has captions too)!
I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve heard about this. like for years I’ve been thinking “imagine if the police were in charge of ambulances and firefighting, all the horrible problems that would cause, wouldn’t it be better if they were a separate thing, etc” as a way to better understand/explain the fundamental problems with the existence of police. that framing was part of what made me start to understand why my friends were saying “ACAB” and “abolish the police”. I had no idea it was literally once historically like that and not just a hypothetical tbh
There is a book about it also. AMERICAN SIRENS: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF BLACK MEN WHO BECAME AMERICA’S FIRST PARAMEDICS by Kevin Hazzard.
📣 As always black people invented everything good in this world. 📣
📣 Everyone say thank you black people 📣
