>> Black and brown communities are being disproportionately devastated by COVID-19.
>> The man republicans despise. >> If you're a young African American, an
immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state. You just need to be conservative, not liberal.
>> Who say the quiet parts out loud. >> Amazing news.
Turkish Airlines granted us an airplane to fly to Somalia. A 60 ton cargo plane.
>> A selfless human who fights for equality. >> 23 year old Elijah McClain was out buying
ice tea. >> And demands change from this.
>> 21,900 inmates being housed in crowded dormitories creates a very high exposure risk
situation.
>> And this. >> He's fired.
>> Even if the commander in chief demands he never regain employment.
>> We the National Football League believe Black Lives Matter.
>> In lockstep with the commissioner of Kap's League. He is an inspiration that has persevered
with one goal a more just society for all.
A knee symbolized the America we live in and were sold simply was not reality for each
and every citizen, with race the culprit of this division. Just for this stance alone,
for the expression of believing that a less racist Utopia can happen. He was shunned.
Through the collusive efforts of NFL owners, the commissioner, and the sitting President
of the United States.
Since then, his efforts have not gone unnoticed and he continues his journey. In a piece on
Medium, where Kap was named as a member on the board of directors just a few months ago.
Kap wrote, not only do police and prisons fail to make us safer, but reform has only
strengthened their most toxic ingrained practices.
The only answer is abolition. A full dismantling of the carceral state and the institutions
that support it. Take for example. Jonathan Price, murdered in his hometown by a racist
police officer. He tried shaking the officers hand and was shot to death. The officer, Shaun
Lucas, had been on the force for six months.
It's because black people are targeted. >> People get tired of hearing me say it but
we are scared as black people in America. >> And the statistics back this up. Black
people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Of nearly 100
million traffic stops by police departments nationwide, found that black drivers were
far more likely to be pulled over than white drivers.
And here's the thing, researchers found a 5 to 10% drop in the share of stop drivers
after sunset who are black, suggesting black drivers are being racially profiled during
the day. So what happens when there is a case of police brutality? Yep, pretty bad. And
the reason charges are rarely brought to court is because of many layers of BS.
One of the most glaring? >> There is a case that went up to the Supreme
Court recently that the Supreme Court declined to hear and it involves siccing an attack
dog on an individual. And in that case, there actually was a prior case. A man had already
surrendered and an officer nonetheless sicced to the attack dog on that man and the court
said that is a constitutional violation.
And what the lawyers for the police argued in this case was well, but in that case the
man was laying face down when he had surrendered. And in this new case he was sitting with his
arms up. And that distinction is sufficiently relevant to say that this officer should get
immunity.
>> Or as this one TikTok'r put it. >> Hey, can you. Why did you do that? I don't
know, I thought you were going to slap me first. Okay, well I feel like you should still
get in trouble. For sure, yeah, we can get the teacher in here.
Is there a problem here? Yeah, he slapped me. He should get in trouble, right? Has he
slapped people before? Yeah. And did he get in trouble then? No. Okay, so according to
the rules, he can't get in trouble now. Wait, what, that doesn't. Did you see that? He just
slapped me again.
Has he done this before? Yeah, it literally just happened. And did he get in trouble then?
No, okay, so according to the rules, he can't get in trouble now. I'm sorry what kind of
rule. >> Kap continues, it's not a matter of bad
apples spoiling the bunch but interlocking systems that are rotten to their core.
And systemic problems demand systemic solutions. Despite the steady cascade of anti-black violence
across this country, I am hopeful we can build a future that imagines justice differently.
A future without the terror of policing and prisons. A future that prioritizes harm reduction,
redemption and public well being, in order to create a more just and humane world.
Recall this, when cap teamed up with Kevin Livingston from 100 suits for 100 men. And
donated his own custom made suits to help the formerly incarcerated obtain employment.
He mentions in his essay he spent time at Rikers, with men no older than 20. They explained
to Kap the dehumanizing conditions in the prison that ranged from denial of literature
to physical assault.
They have been criminalized and caged in most cases for being redlined into economic despair.
He cites Angela Davis who wrote prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human
beings. The focus on individual punishment will never alter the outcome of a system rooted
in black death. I wanted change, I wanted it to stop.
I wanted to reform what I saw. Yet the reforms often proposed use-of-force policies, body
cameras, more training and more police accountability. Were the same recycled police performs consistently
proposed in the past. In both the past and the present, these reforms have done nothing
to stop the actions that forced us to say their names.
By abolishing policing and prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishment,
but we can create space for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address
mental health needs. Homelessness and houselessness, access to education and job creation. As well
as community based methods of accountability. This is a future that centers the needs of
the people, a future that will make us safer, healthier, and truly free.
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