Half the police force quit, & the crime rate dropped. It's almost like we shouldn't be having sociopathic racists in charge of policing in the first place! Also this:
"...And despite significant staffing shortages at law enforcement agencies around the country, if trends continue, 2023 will have the largest percentage drop in homicides in U.S. history." #ACAB#homicide#crime
Paris is burning again. And so it Marseille, Lyon and... loads of other places. This is the result of police murdering 17 year old Nahel M in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, and then, as usual, lying about what happened. The murder is just the latest in a long row of recent as well as historical events within France's racist and colonial tradition of exploitation, marginalization and violence directed towards people who have their roots in France's old colonial sphere. Few events exemplify this horrific tradition as strongly as the Paris massacre of 1961, when up to 300 Algerian protestors were killed by the cops.
But this issue also goes deeper. When the workers are constantly exploited for the benefit of a small political end economic elite, when we're manipulated by arrogant and corrupt politicians, when we see no hope, future or place in the society they force us to endure, when we live through climate disasters caused by the rapacious capitalist exploitation of our planet and are repeatedly faced with violence from the state when we raise our voices and take action - why would we have any loyalty at all with the system that is killing us and undermining our very conditions of existance?
The rebels in France are leading the way by burning down the system that daily tramples them, exploits them and murders them. Police stations and luxury cars are on fire, and so are banks. Barricades are erected, cops are being attacked, and the stores, where commodities that we cannot afford are mocking us from the selves, are now breached using stolen luxury cars. Great! Full solidarity with those that have had enough and are showing it in the streets!
However, in order for the riots to go beyond being just a spark that is eventually put out by the violence of the state, it has to not only spread geographically, but also socially. They have to link up with resistance against neoliberal austerity, against the pension reforms, and with the slumbering working class organization in the workplaces where our salaries are increasingly eroded while the rich are laughing at us and drowning in profits. The riots need to engulf schools and universities, in our neighborhoods where people are evicted and forced to live in squalid environments while the landlords make profits and gentrify.
Only then can the riot turn from a flickering promise to a burning revolutionary situation that really threatens the power and position of the capitalist elites and state bureaucrats. Let's do what we can to stimulate and encourage this development, while at the same time remembering that the same system is keeping us in chains wherever we are at, be it in Sweden or someplace else, and that we also need to organize resistance and build alternatives where we are, in the ways available to us. 🔥 🏴 🖤
Police on the train "inspecting tickets", but they don't have a reader so if you flash a card you're fine. Looks like they're writing up a kid in the next carriage so he must have just turned himself in. Excellent detective work. #acab
@themarkup
Yet another disturbing example of how #SurveillanceCapitalism ties directly into #Fascism. If the stores are collecting your #HIPPA info for Vaccine appointments or other health equipment and sending that data directly to #Facebook, the cops can and will subpoena that data.
Rite Aid, Sam's Club, and Costco are all actively trying to get you killed/jailed for searching for medications. #ACAB
UNSA Police et Alliance Police sortent un communiqué appelant à une escalade de la violence, où ils préviennent le gouvernement que c'est ce qu'ils feront quoi qu'il arrive, et se déclarent en guerre.
Ce sont des organisations fascistes et factieuses qu'il faut dissoudre. #ACAB
A 17 years old boy got shot and killed by a policeman while fleeing from a police check in France, and this is what the whole country looks like 48h later. :solidarity:
Contre Attaque
"Die Szene ereignete sich gegen 8.30 Uhr in der Nähe der RER-Station Nanterre-Préfecture in einem Pariser Vorort. Bei einer Fahrzeugkontrolle richtete ein Motorradpolizist seine Waffe auf die vitalen Körperteile eines Fahrers und schoss dann, als das Fahrzeug losfuhr. Der 17-jähriger Jugendliche starb kurz darauf und ein Beifahrer wurde festgenommen.
[...]
Im Jahr 2022 gab es 13 Todesfälle, die auf „Verweigerung des Gehorsams“ bei Kontrollen zurückzuführen waren, eine noch nie dagewesene Zahl. Im April 2022 wurden zwei Brüder auf einer Brücke in der Nähe der Pariser Präfektur von einem Polizisten mit einem Sturmgewehr in den Rücken geschossen. Eine Doppelhinrichtung ohne jegliche Art von Notwehr. Im Juni verlor eine junge Passantin mitten in Paris als „Kollateralopfer“ eines Schusses aus einer polizeilichen Dienstwaffe ihr Leben."
Three Nights of Riots in France After Police Kill Youth
"France has seen a wave of massive protests following the death of a teen at the hands of police.
On Thursday, air traffic controllers at Paris’ Beauvais Airport saw a complete shutdown of flights as travelers flock to the top tourism destination.
In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a vigil.
Protesters scrawled “Vengeance for Nahel” across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire.
In central Paris, a Nike shoe store was broken into after store windows were smashed along the rue de Rivoli shopping street, Paris police said.
Fires and fireworks erupted in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille."
Three Nights of Riots in France After Police Kill Youth
"France has seen a wave of massive protests following the death of a teen at the hands of police.
On Thursday, air traffic controllers at Paris’ Beauvais Airport saw a complete shutdown of flights as travelers flock to the top tourism destination.
In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a vigil.
Protesters scrawled “Vengeance for Nahel” across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire.
In central Paris, a Nike shoe store was broken into after store windows were smashed along the rue de Rivoli shopping street, Paris police said.
Fires and fireworks erupted in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille."
via @amwenglish https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/30/three-nights-of-riots-in-france-after-police-kill-youth/
Paris riots: when police shot a teenager dead, a rumbling pressure cooker exploded
"It raises the memory of the violence that spread across the city’s suburbs in 2005, lasting more than three weeks and forcing the co
untry into a state of emergency. Many of the issues behind the unrest back then remain unresolved to this day and have potentially been aggravated by ever worsening relations between the police and the public.
During my extensive fieldwork in the suburban estates of Paris, Lyon and Marseille I have seen and heard first-hand the grievances that are now being cried out on the streets of Nanterre."
Paris riots: when police shot a teenager dead, a rumbling pressure cooker exploded
"It raises the memory of the violence that spread across the city’s suburbs in 2005, lasting more than three weeks and forcing the country into a state of emergency. Many of the issues behind the unrest back then remain unresolved to this day and have potentially been aggravated by ever worsening relations between the police and the public."
"For the past few days, Paris has been engulfed in mass unrest, as people all over the country demonstrate against the murder of Nahel Merzouk by the French police. This callous act of racist brutality shocked French society, which is now rising up against its criminal police force and the violence it carries out with complete impunity. Here we publish a statement from the Francophone Anarchist Federation, who are fighting for truth and justice alongside their compatriots in the streets."
Für Nael und die Anderen
"Da ist er also, wieder einer, einer mehr, einer mehr von uns, der durch die Kugeln der Polizei stirbt. Er war 17 Jahre alt. Der Polizist hält ihm die Waffe an den Kopf und sagt ihm, dass er schießen wird. Er flieht. Der Polizist schießt. Der Mann ist tot.
(...)
Sie werden weiterhin in den Medien und auf Pressekonferenzen ihren Dreck von sich geben. Mit dieser Flut von Worten versuchen sie, die Wahrheit zu verbergen, die doch so einfach ist: Die Polizei tötet. Der Schuss eines Polizisten ist nur die Folge von Gesetzen, die Schüsse bei Verweigerung des Gehorsams gegenüber Anordnungen legitimieren, von all diesen Experten, die immer gewalttätigere und ausgeklügeltere Waffen propagieren, damit das Innenministerium immer mehr davon kaufen kann, von diesen Politikern, die immer dieselben Teile der Bevölkerung stigmatisieren, die Gefährlichen, die Radikalisierten, die Nichtrepublikaner, den inneren Feind."
Unveröffentlichte Studie: 12.000 Verdachtsfälle unrechtmäßige Polizeigewalt pro Jahr
"Unrechtmäßige Polizeigewalt kommt in Deutschland deutlich häufiger vor als bisher bekannt.
Strafrechtlich geahndet werden sie nur selten. Weniger als zwei Prozent der Fälle kommen vor Gericht, weniger als 1 Prozent enden mit einer Verurteilung, so Singelnstein. Oft stehe das Wort der Bürger gegen das der Beamten."
34 Polizeikugeln gegen einen 19-jährigen Herforder. Dienstwaffengebrauch von in Deutschland ungekannter Dimension.
"Ein 19-Jähriger aus Herford hat keinen Führerschein, aber Lust auf eine Spritztour. Sie endet in einem Wendehammer in Bad Salzuflen, im Kugelhagel der Polizei."