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Definitely time to repost this gem.
"[If folks knew] how [cops are] trained and brought up, it would inform the demands [folks] should be making of a new way of community safety. If I tell you how we were made, I hope it will empower you to unmake us." https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
"[If folks knew] how [cops are] trained and brought up, it would inform the demands [folks] should be making of a new way of community safety. If I tell you how we were made, I hope it will empower you to unmake us." https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
Relevant material about Dave Grossman, a real piece of shit who trains our cops to be pieces of shit https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/dave-grossman-training-police-militarization/
@drmistercody explains a bit more about Dave Grossman, the guy who teaches our cops that we are all Matrix-Agent-like sleeper-cell murderers who just like, NEED KILLIN'
Cops aren't necessarily ALL active members of white supremacist orgs (unless you count the cops –which I do), but all cops know about, tolerate, and indeed protect white supremacists in their ranks.
That's (one reason) why all cops are bastards. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report
That's (one reason) why all cops are bastards. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report
Here's a PBS article from 2016 (5 years ago) that talks about how the FBI warned us about intentional and prolific nationwide infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacists ten years earlier (15 years ago.) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the racist-ass history of American cops. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21280643/police-brutality-violence-protests-racism-khalil-muhammad
A short video on the racist origins of American police for those who ain't got time to read
This St. Louis cop talks about nazi cops on the force a year ago.
It bears repeating that white supremacy is not just anti-Black. It is anti-everything-not-white, and in America, it is almost always deeply misogynistic, transphobic, anti-LGBTQ, Islamophobic, and now, thanks to the magic of the internet, generally accelerationist.
White supremacy is a growing tent under which we see disconcerting unity from all kinds of far-right groups, and yo, we have white supremacy issues on the left, too.
Almost forgot: it is anti-semitic and anti-indigenous, too.
They insist on making enemies of the world.
Almost forgot: it is anti-semitic and anti-indigenous, too.
They insist on making enemies of the world.
In terms of risk, White people need to be the front lines in the fight against this problem, because we benefit the most from the institution even as we work to take it apart.
Don't let the enemy call you hypocrites for being privileged. Craft that privilege into a shield.
Don't let the enemy call you hypocrites for being privileged. Craft that privilege into a shield.
Don't become a cop.
Don't date cops.
Don't talk to cops.
Don't trust cops.
Abolish the police.
Don't date cops.
Don't talk to cops.
Don't trust cops.
Abolish the police.
