A new Netflix documentary, Power, examines why “Violence Is Part & Parcel” of U.S. Policing.
"The thing that police want to do more than anything else is contain & control threats to order,” says Ford.
What we still see in the U.S. & globally, from the Black Lives Matter movement to the campus Gaza solidarity movement, is “the use of police as small militaries whose job is to suppress dissent.”
A new Netflix documentary, Power, examines why “Violence Is Part & Parcel” of U.S. Policing.
"The thing that police want to do more than anything else is contain & control threats to order,” says Ford.
What we still see in the U.S. & globally, from the Black Lives Matter movement to the campus Gaza solidarity movement, is “the use of police as small militaries whose job is to suppress dissent.”
In a new investigative report, AP finds: "In hundreds of deaths where [U.S.] police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times."
"For its investigation, AP catalogued 1,036 deaths over a decade’s time after officers had used force not involving their guns. In about half, medical officials ruled that law enforcement caused or contributed to the deaths, but they usually didn’t mention whether policing best practices were followed."
#Fortson’s death reflects a continuing pattern seen in countless other cases where innocent #BlackPeople have been killed by #police in their homes in recent years, often by officers responding to the wrong address or using #deadlyForce inappropriately.
Seen the rubble, the buildings,
the mothers and the children
And all the men that you murdered,
and then we see how you spin it... https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fgDQyFeBBIo
Going through my social media, it seems like Gaza doesn't even exist.
It's all about student protests and police brutality in US.
In the mean time, the stories of Maas Graves, mass execution of healthcare staff and mutilated bodies of palestinians in Khan Yunis have all but disappeared from the news.
No news about starvation.
No news about murder of aid workers by IDF.
No news of bombing tent cities with fire bombs.
No news of Netanyahu ignoring the peace proposal.
No news that Biden keep sending weapons and money to Netanyahu.
I guess it's good that we see the student protests are spreading, but it should not be forgetting WHY they are protesting and what over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are forced to live every day.
@faab64
Personally i feel its because some of the protesters are there just for themselves and others wanting to feel better by thinking their group is helping.
Change do to protests takes years. History is clear on this.
So please march, Hold up signs, Hold speeches and Write your politician.
Just don't scare off the people you need to convince by doing big acts, thinking one act will stop it all. @palestine@israel
"More than 1,000 people have been arrested in crackdowns on #UniversityProtests across the United States. Facing #PoliceBrutality, arrests, and attacks from counter-protesters, what will #StudentProtesters do next?"
@aral I get the dilemma that US progressive and progressive-adjacent voters are in. But surely there has to be some consequence for actively supporting the mass slaughter of civilians (which may turn out to be ruled to be a genocide)? If there is no consequence then there's nothing to stop the next Democratic president from supporting it. But if Biden does lose because of this then
hopefully it will give the next guy pause before going down the same road again (maybe).
@rmischook Problem is, if Biden loses, there might not be (a democratically-elected) “next guy”. But yes, there must be consequences to supporting genocide. The question is, who has the power to enforce them on the guy who controls the world’s most powerful military?