S/o to @pennforpilots for all the work and organizing they put into this win! Like they said, it's a first step, Philly schools deserve more, and Penn can certainly afford more, let's keep the pressure going!
A group of mostly UPenn grad students are marching from Malcolm X Park to Penn’s campus and into CC for Walter Wallace Jr. and against Penn’s lack of investment in the community and over policing.
.@marclamonthill says reform is not enough to address racism in policing. "We’ve watered down our freedom dream. We’ve taken the teeth out of the radical demand," he says. "We need to return to this vision of a future without policing and without prisons." https://t.co/1XbhqPqdrP
The group ended at the LOVE statue on Penn’s campus. Organizer Ebony says what happened to Walter Wallace Jr. should’ve never happened. Needing mental healthcare shouldn’t be a death sentence, Ebony says.
About 2 dozen mostly Penn students prepared to march from Malcolm X down to Penn’s campus, calling on the school to take accountability for its impact on the West Philly community. Pictured, organizer Ebony Powell
Philly cops smashed a car window, seized the driver, and snatched a small child from the backseat. The police union then lied and posted a propaganda-filled tweet claiming police found the child walking around bare foot.
This is truly repugnant behavior.
Here's a few math problems:
Police + excessive, unnecessary use of force = death and riots.
Community conflict - police misconduct = saved lives.
When the police acts up = the community acts up.
THE POLICE NEED TO STOP. THEY ARE THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM.
Folks are taking Walter Wallace’s mugshots and posting them. This means nothing, so IGNORE it.
Prior experiences of Black people mean NOTHING. Whether he committed a crime that day or before, police used unnecessary excessive force.
He is dead because of THAT and only that.