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WYFP: Talkin' About Police Reform [1]

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Date: 2023-02-18  

Say Their Names: Tyre Nichols. Keenan Anderson. Christopher Lee Mercurio. Darryl Tyree Williams. Jackson Lieber. Jaahnavi Kandula. Billy DeWayne Couch. Manuel Esteban Paez Teran.

It’s only February 17 and 8 unarmed people have been killed by police this year. It may be 9 by the time this posts. The 8th person was a political protestor, Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, called Tortuguita or “little turtle”, in a tent in Atlanta set up to protest the proposed “cop city” training facility.



Although police claim Tortuguita shot them first, they haven’t been able to come up with evidence.

I haven’t seen anything about the cop city protests on this site so I wanted to write about it. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been homeless but this sounds like some scary s***. If this is built, it will be an urban warfare training facility, training not just Georgia law enforcement but nation wide law enforcement. Meaning protestors. Fighting fascism isn’t just about fighting politicians or policy. Our police are being militarized against us, citizens. I don’t lose my mind when I hear “defund the cops” because I think police need to be reformed and yes, the media and right wing use the term to scare people. They’re going to use whatever we call it to scare people because they don’t want reform. I think the people who are concerned about messaging are missing the trees for the forest. We’re losing too many trees, imo.

That’s my f***ing problem this week. WYFP?

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