they/them | 30, 🇨🇦, non-binary, autistic and tired | I've been here since before the Mishapocalypse, was online for Dashcon | my joints hurt every single day so I just get high to deal with it, thanks hemophilia ------- my wrestling sideblog is GrapplingWithADHD, where I make a lot of gifs of All Elite Wrestling
they have been beating and tear gassing african immigrants for the crime of being black for the past several days. Emmanuel Sackie is a naturalized citizen from Liberia and they put him in the hospital:
It’s easy to look at these and assume “well, high crime cities need more police,” but i think that’s putting the cart before the horse.
Police make crime worse.
Police take fiscal oxygen out of the room, away from actual social support programs. The money spent on policing could go to housing, nutritional services, healthcare, civil rights, building inspections, labor rights enforcement, street maintenance, public transportation. But it goes to paying guys to sit around idling Ford Explorers all day and hitting poor people with sticks.
Crime follows poverty in absolutely every single case. Every single “high crime city” is because of the fucking poverty.
you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity
And fuck the jigsaw puzzle imagery advanced by the eugenicists at Autism Speaks. We’re not a “puzzle” to be “solved“
Half of all people killed by cops have a disability, because cops aren’t trained to recognize or deal with people with disabilities and very few places have people who are trained for those situations easily accessible during emergencies. So the cops come in and do what they’re paid to do - murder anyone who’s inconvenient to the state
a magnificent twofer found in st petersburg, russia. looking forward to getting fully arrested for wearing the first one if i ever encounter a cop that can read
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