e.g. cummings

big butt, bigger heart

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

If you’re not working for justice, stop calling for peace.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

We have dismantled systems that were older and more ingrained in society that policing. If we can end things like monarchal rule and the slave trade, we can end policing.

[shania twink @OfficialDebRyna]

When my cousin Jason Yang was chased off a bridge by Minneapolis police and fell to his death in 2010, he wasn’t laid to rest for a full year due to all the gaslighting and cover ups from MPD. They’ll continue to kill and lie, and the only way to stop the cycle is abolition.

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

How might we understand mourning, when the event has yet to end? - Saidiya Hartman

[Sleeping Giants @slpng_giants]

Pam Bondi, on this very same network called Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17 year old Kenosha shooter, a “little boy.”

[Elizabeth Hinton @elizabhinton]

20 years ago today, Cincinnati was in a “state of emergency” and put under curfew. A police officer killed a 19-year -old named Timothy Thomas. He was the 15th Black man killed by CPD in a 6 year period. People took to the streets and burned the city for 3 days demanding justice

[aurielle is off socials. @YesAurielle]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but police officers are not the authority on police brutality. The People are.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

The highly-coordinated effort to drown out calls for defunding and/or abolishing police is not motivated by research-based concerns over the (in)effectiveness of policing or the existing data about public health & safety (all of which favor abolition). It’s about profitability...

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

We already have many well-researched approaches to addressing public safety in the absence of police. Some are being tested via pilot programs & already seeing success, such as using a non-police response for mental health crises, which are among the majority of 911 calls

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Please understand— The tremendous pushback against abolition, the enormous PR push using Black LEOs happening right now, is not about public safety. It’s purely about preserving an institution & industry that is highly profitable to many, many people.

[Clarissa Brooks @ClarissaMBrooks]

Abolition is the compromise.

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Adam Toledo was loved. He was one of ours, and we are keeping his memory and his Gary ES family in our hearts, along with his mother, family and the people of Little Village. We wish them healing and comfort right now.

Love your children. Love your communities. Love yourselves.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Do not call him anything but a child, a son who loved and was loved, and do not call this anything other than straight murder.

[Necro-NOM NOM NOM-icon @talkendo]

Reminder: Cops lie. Cops lie reflexively. Cops lie even when they know they'll get found out.

@prisonculture and others have been saying this for YEARS.

[Adnan Khan @akhan1437]

The idea of “safety” has been sold to us and completely monopolized by police & prisons. They’ve been marketing fear & panic, not actual safety. They’ve convinced so many ppl that w/o police & prisons, safety is utterly impossible. And by doing so they’ve policed our imagination.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

“There’s no excuse for violence” says the country with 800 military bases in 146 countries

[e.g. cummings @forensicfupas]

Every single time I’m alone I’m consumed by tears and genuinely cannot remember the reasons people stay here despite all of the loss and suffering