WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ In 2022, a cop in Colorado put a handcuffed woman inside a police cruiser before it was hit by a train.
Jordan Steinke has been found NOT guilty of attempted reckless manslaughter, and guilty of 2 misdemeanors: 3rd-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
Can you fucking imagine scheduling a vote this crucial on Christmas Day? Given where the Muslim councilmembers lined up on this issue, it's really hard to believe this was not calculated.
When poor people break the law, the law assumes malice and ill intent, when the rich and powerful break the law, the law assumes it’s a clerical error, a mistake, an oversight, and then officials politely suggest they correct their error when it’s convenient for them
Never forget - the Minneapolis police department targeted and arrested journalists in an effort to suppress reporting on what was happening on the ground after George Floyd was killed
If you got shot and survived in Chicago last year there was a less than 5% chance the cops arrested the person who shot at you. We spend almost $2 billion on police every year
Police put a woman in a car. And left it on the train tracks. And a train hit the car.
Do police officers need to be taught about trains? What training fixes utter disregard for human life? What will another million from the city budget do to rectify this? Why do we trust them?
It's absolutely monstrous that some Democrats are talking about increasing police surveillance funding *by billions* without acknowledging that it will be used around U.S. for unprecedented mass criminalization of women. They're handing 1,000s of armed cops to DeSantis + Abbott.