Good news! (Maybe?) Federal legislators have introduced a bill that, if passed, would finally guarantee the right to record law enforcement officers. Hereโs Reasonโs CJ Ciaramella with โฆ
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"Defund the Police" is a slogan pushed by right-wing trolls in left wing social media, in order to discredit the left and thereby win elections. That's been very successful for the right.
@jonesmurphy I've known left-wing activists here in the UK who've argued for divestment of funds away from traditional policing into various forms of community-based approaches to tackling crime. For instance, much (most in some areas) acquisitive crime such as burglaries, muggings and petty theft is fuelled by addiction, and punitive measures waste the time and resources of police and the criminal justice system.
We could be treating addiction as a public health issue like Portugal.
@jonesmurphy Also (sorry, I ran out of characters!), I've personally not seen any evidence of right-wing trolls spreading the slogan. Even a quick image search reveals Defund the Police to have been a sincere call from BLM activists concerned about institutional racism. Are all those banners and placards being carried by secret right-wingers? Is that not...doubtful? ๐ค
@ApostateEnglishman how connected are you with black people? I have a black extended family of hundreds, 100% of whom support BLM and absolutely despise "Defund Police". What you write is insane bullshit to me, a black man George Floyd's color with terrible experiences with white cops in the USA.
@jonesmurphy Connected, thanks. You claimed Defund the Police is right-wing when police abolitionism came from radical Black activists. This group were behind the slogan.๐๐ผ
@ApostateEnglishman white supremacists sprang into action as soon as they murdered George Floyd. They committed the overwhelming majority of non-police violence in those protests. The overwhelming majority of police violence also came from white supremacists, including the murder of George Floyd. It was white supremacists who popularized "Abolish Police" & "Defund Police". These slogans are extremely unpopular at the black grassroots.
@jonesmurphy Okay, I'll acknowledge those slightly different points as I wouldn't wish us to fall out over this - let alone come across as dismissing your lived experience as a Black man in America.
I'll also agree that "defund the police" was a spectacularly ill-advised slogan that has led to much confusion. This is something I've argued myself at anti-racist organising meets.
I do however advocate for not sending police into every situation that would be better handled by others.
@ApostateEnglishman you ignored my query about your ties to blackness. You're disrespecting me and are confirming my suspicions that you lived segregated from blackness.
@jonesmurphy Your suspicions are incorrect. We were one of only two white families on my street growing up and I've worked in support services my whole life, including those serving predominantly Black communities. I'm also a lifelong anti-racist campaigner.
@ApostateEnglishman I was born and raised in the Caribbean island of Dominica ๐ฉ๐ฒ. My father left the US in 1961, and did not return even to visit for nearly 20 years. He died a few weeks after election 2024 angry but not surprised at the behavior of so many Nazi eugenics fans and segregationists. Our values and perspectives are quite different. I actually want to abolish the nonsensical Nazi inbreeding caste culture. I know non-racist policing from vast experience of many countries.
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The more things change, the more they remain the same. That could be said of anywhere in this country, now that the Trump administration is trying to turn the clock back to 1940, if not 1840. But iโฆ
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This is more or less exactly how Orbรกn did it in Hungary. You control all the big media and start to choke out small ones by ridiculous "oversight" rules. Outcome : You are in a deep shit for many years. I recon, USA has last chance next elections.
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