The time is now. With new proposed investments in direct student supports (social workers, counselors, culturally-specific partnerships & more), I am discontinuing the regular presence of School Resource Officers @PPSConnect. We need to re-examine our relationship with the PPB.
Damage of property does nothing to take away from that legitimacy, and it is not violence. Systematic murder of black people is violence. Militarized police attacking the peacefully assembled is violence.
Fuck the police. Black Lives Matter.