#defund cpd

[goingoutofourminds]

adam toledo was thirteen years old, the same age as my youngest cousin. that’s what got to me, that he was my baby cousin’s age and they still killed him. i can’t stop crying.

[abrujadiary]

IT’S NOT OVER.

[beecakes]

‎Front Burner on Apple Podcasts

‎News · 2020

‘Above the Law’ chronicles police violence in Calgary, AB

Calgary has officer involved shootings at a higher rate than the 10 largest cities combined!

TW for the first few minutes. It’s a story of what is essentially a man taken on a “starlight tour” by CPD; left for dead in -30C weather. He had a friend’s phone on him but didn’t have the passcode so he could only call 911 for help. Dispatch had been told to hang up on him, which they did. He called again and the officer who responded tazed him in the back and beat him.

The victim was then charged with assaulting an officer.

He was only acquitted because there was video footage.

He filed a complaint which was ignored and a few months later it happed again. The same (2nd) cop beat a man resulting in permanent brain damage and the loss of his victim’s eye. The cop claimed self defence because his victim spat blood at him.

@politicsofcanada

@allthecanadianpolitics

[mantra4ia]

Biden: this is not the hero you're looking for.

I need a lot social and political issues to be resolved in 2020. One of those is Americans holding out for a hero in office. You know, those elected officials which govern and legislate and cause power to scale for generations through law.

In my opinion, recent American history has illuminated a country with a mythology of looking to its national representatives for a fix-it-person, a status or identity symbol, to embody a series of beliefs, to project ideals of the pristine* US Constitution forward into the present. I believe that kind of political idolitry, bolstered by party fealty, is dangerous. Gravely. Particularly when projected onto the highest office of your country — in our case the Presidency — because produces a series of mishaphen figureheads. I don't want a hero, I want (for lack of a better term) a workhorse in office.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is neither of those things but unfortunately the election arena is projecting the hero status onto him via a jumbotron, which he embraces with rhetoric like "we're in a battle for the soul of the nation". Biden will very likely be heralded as a savior, a beacon of hope and sanity and normalcy, etc, for absolutely nothing except his preseason tryout.

But while he may become the next United States President — presuming he can beat Donald Trump, who is only doing one thing "best" right now and that is handing over the presidency through a series of fumbles to whoever can reach for it — Biden is once again on the wrong side of history regarding law enforcement officers as with universal health care. He is not the leader for our time, we missed that shot. Biden was a driving force behind the '94 crime bill, and to this day Biden's statement / his "plan" for moving forward with police reform, is not to defund the force, but rather to both increase police budget and increase community program funding, further cementing his colloquial title as Status Quo, nothing will fundamentally change, Joe.

A Biden spokesperson says he feels the police need more money and more overreach / responsibility, despite nationwide debate with growing support for defunding and in some instances dissolving local police: "$300 million more in funding for community-oriented policing services program allowing more officers to be hired and paid for training on community policing (integration) approaches." If you grew up during a certain time, in public schools, do you remember police liaison officers, and DARE? I don't think we need more of that integration, when the systemic problem is the police force being a hammer turning those which it comes into contact into nails. As such, the police force is fundamentally faulty / not the best ones equipped when handling some of these social responsibilities: police in schools, mental health communities and among the homeless, wellness checks, etc. When your trade is hammer-like force, in these conditions, you're only shattering the social contract between us that forms the bedrock of communities.

Joe Biden either doesn't understand this corruption because he is out of touch and out of step, or he simply does not care.

It is time for the Americans to realize that the only one we should paint heroically in the political landscape is ourselves when we put feet to the ground, action in our steps, demands in our message, and reject the framing of our political representatives statements "this or that, Republican or Democrat, fund the PD and the exploited community" when they aren't in our best interest. The only way Biden is going to be our workhorse is if we drag him through hurdles, and assuming he wins the national election in November, I hope we do less celebratory congratulating and more scrutinizing from every day forward.

Erase a mythical narrative. Biden is NOT OUR CHAMPION in this moment. Only we can be. #DefundthePD

[radicalurbanista]

8.15.20. Chicago

Protesters begin peaceful demonstrations to defund CPD, cancel the ICE citizens academy (an ICE program to militarize citizens against suspected immigrants), re-allocate funds towards community centers and e-learning, and have universities cut ties with ICE. Local police respond with tear gas and batons before the sun even sets.

[radicalurbanista]

Rescue Our Communities. Not Big Banks or the Police.

Chicago is sitting on nearly $2 billion in federal COVID relief funds. While the Mayor continues to signal she will prioritize re-paying big

9.14.21. Chicago

CPD arrest non-violent protestors demanding that federal COVID reliefs help those most in need and impacted by COVID. Mayor Lightfoot spent almost 70% of CARES Act discretionary funds on police payroll. 4.5% went to public health.

Write or call your alderperson to demand COVID relief funds help those most harmed by COVID

[radicalurbanista]

End Police Surveillance

End Police Surveillance

ShotSpotter is dispatched only in predominately Black or Latinx neighborhoods

IT GETS WORSE

ShotSpotter has altered data at the request of police to help them in a false conviction.

Not only is the technology faulty at what it claims to do, not only is its deployment racist, not only does it fail to make the public safer, but company ShotSpotter by working for the police is continuing the U.S. legacy of false convictions of Black people. Security tech won’t make us safer, there’ll cover for lying pigs.

Defund CPD campaign petition, rally info, and social media.

[radicalurbanista]

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4.17.21. Chicago

Adam Toledo's family, Little Village, and the Chicago community came out last night to mourn the death of the 13 year old killed by CPD and to protest the terrorism and existence of police. It may be the largest demonstration this year so far. Solidarity marches were held in New York and Los Angeles as well.

The protest went on without rioting until police arrested a high schooler and another person and began beating protestors. Through jail support and an alderman support, both were released.

BLM Chicago is asking for help:

🗣 Call @SAKimFoxx and tell her to drop all charges against protesters arrested last night at the #AdamToledo action!

Call her office at 312-603-1880 and tell her to drop charges against our youth member Anthony McCullom III and Graham Lefauve!

Police show time and time again that they are the greatest threat to community safety.

Abolition is safety.