We still need to defund the Police
But what should defunding the cops mean?
This statement was originally published on Facebook on June 5th 2020.
*Trigger Warning* Mention of rape, pedophilia, sex trafficking, murder, torture
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The cops who are resigning right now aren’t resigning because they care about justice. They’re resigning in protest of how some of them (a very tiny fraction) are actually being charged with crimes and held accountable for their brutality in very small ways.
None of them are in prison yet. None of them had their pensions taken away. None of them have been fined. No police unions have been outlawed. No police departments have been totally defunded and abolished. None of them have actually paid any real price. But they’re having a tantrum because their superiors are making tiny symbolic motions of accountability to try to placate We The People.
This is the reality of cops. They are a criminal patriarchal gang who brutalize The People and demand to do so with full protection from the State. That was the job they wanted and that was the job they got. That’s why any decent person who tries to be a cop is weeded out so they’re not an…
