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y’all saying BLM for one situation just don’t sit right with me, it goes beyond police brutality!!! it’s Black women dying at a higher rate during childbirth. it’s Black people being exposed to COVID-19 at a higher rate. it’s Black people being forced into low income communities. it's Black people being denied job opportunities due to the name on their applications. it's Black people being denied into higher institutions despite having the same qualifications as their non-Black counterparts. it's Black people having their creations and ideas stolen without being given credit simply because a good percentage of society still believes in 2020 that Black people are not creative enough or smart enough or skilled enough. it's decreasing the federal funding for schools in predominantly black neighborhoods due to gerrymandering. it's the kidnapping and murders of black men, women, and children that don't make it on the news. this isn't just about police brutality. this is deeper than that.

How clearly does the point need to be made that "police officer" is just a fucking job, one with minimal training and minimal monitoring. It is NOT some kind of promise of honesty, truth, or heroism. It is a bunch of assistant managers with extremely powerful weapons. IF you can understand "pedophiles choose to be priests and teachers so they can get to children", IF you understand "arsonists choose to be firefighters so they can be present at their own crimes" - then you can ALSO understand "people who are bigoted, violent, and power-hungry choose to be cops for the opportunities the job presents" and you can ALSO understand "any occupational culture that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives"

Lamis Chapman, 12, and Khalia Wilson, 14, were brutally thrown to the ground by the NYPD. Two Muslim teenage sisters say the NYPD ripped off their hijabs and shoved them to the ground after they were ordered to leave a Bronx park Monday night, at the Lester Patterson Houses in Mott Haven.

Khalia explains the the “Stop and Frisk” encounter, saying “They said they asked for ID. I didn’t hear them.”

Their brother Shytike Wilson, 15, saw the altercation. That’s when he tried to intervene, but he explains that, the police “slammed me on the floor”, placing him under arrest.

A near-by college student, Jonathan Harris, was pepper sprayed and placed under arrest too. 

His crime: recording the police brutality with his cell phone. 

Harris says the police yelled, ”Come here, you little motherf—er.” Then explained the reason for the aggression: “You like recording?”

This was the last thing Harris heard before being engulfed in a haze of pepper spray, then hitting the ground. Harris said an officer caught him and tackled him, pushing his face in the dirt, while a second officer punched him in his face while he was down.

“Where’s the phone?” the police yelled. When Harris didn’t respond, the police threatened:  ”I’ll break your arm.”

#NYPD #Islamophobia #Abuse #PoliceBrutality 

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