Rikers Island is named after Richard Riker, a former judge in NY, who was a member of the "Kidnapper's Club". He would work with people who would kidnap free Black men women & children, send them to his court & sentence them back into slavery #CloseRikers#NoNewJails#MassBailout
When the DA’s heard about the #massbailout they had an emergency meeting about setting bail even higher / remanding folks so they cannot be bailed out at all. This clearly shows how invested the DAs, racist courts and city govt are in the caging & slavery of Black & Brown people.
“The real undertaking at present is the unconditional freeing of the people. We plunge beyond ideological debate before this immediate task." -George Jackson
#MassBailOut#CloseRikers#NoNewJails#AbolitionNow
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#MassBailout rally took over the streets of Brooklyn as they headed to the site of the proposed new jail in Brooklyn. Cops came quickly to push protesters to the sidewalk. #NoNewJailsNYC
“We’re here to say fuck the cops! We’re here to say fuck the COs! #NoNewJails!” #MassBailout rally outside of Brooklyn Detention Center, which Mayor de Blasio wants to tear down & rebuild as a new jail as part of his plan to close Rikers. #NoNewJailsNYC
#MassBailout rally took over the streets of Brooklyn earlier & chanted #NoNewJails as they marched to the site of a new jail being proposed as part of Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers. #NoNewJailsNYC
“Understand that if our people are policed twice as much, they must be scared of us!” Sam from @MillionHoodies spoke earlier today at the #MassBailout rally in Brooklyn. (1/2)
Speaker at the #MassBailout rally in Brooklyn earlier talked about how they’re going to connect the people they bail out to resources & social services & also how the media has tried to fear monger about the #MassBailout.
“When the DA’s heard the news about this #massbailout of women and youth on Rikers, they had an emergency meeting to discuss how are they going to set people’s bail even higher or remand them so their freedom cannot be ransomed pretrial at all.“ -Nabil from @nonewjails_nyc