As a white young healthy male urban dweller, my leading cause of death is also being shot by the police. Police suicide with their own firearms is higher than all line of duty deaths combined. Their cultural of violence is a danger to all especially themselves and theirs.
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Replying to @netfire4 @TheMarinaTimes and
It is not like there is any love lost between queers and the cops, given their front line duties of enforcing sexual apartheid. These are the hired help which have increasingly antagonized the shareholders. The boards of directors are nervously taking notice.
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @TheMarinaTimes and
It's increasingly obvious that the priority and exclusive responsibly of the police is to oppress political dissent, not aid in the smooth and lawful functioning of society. It's obviously where they allocate resources at least.
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Replying to @netfire4 @TheMarinaTimes and
I might not so much be at risk of being killed by the cops, middle aged and white, but I am at risk of being killed by a miscreant motorist while cycling because the cops can't be bothered to enforce motorist violations of the vehicle code.
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @TheMarinaTimes and
Well your experience differs from mine. You might know of someone hit by a car, I have friends who were killed, raped, assaulted , and framed by cops. My life has different dangers than yours, it's a generational divide. You didn't grow up worrying about being shot by police.
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Replying to @netfire4 @TheMarinaTimes and
I grew up in Texas in the 1970s. Please don't tell me that. We addressed the cops with "yessir," and "no sir." When I got to CA, the cops were taken aback by that.
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @netfire4 and
My first day in San Francisco the cops rioted against people living with AIDS, cracking skulls, as ACTUP sought to march in the streets: http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Remembering_A_Police_Riot:_The_Castro_Sweep_of_October_6,_1989 …
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @netfire4 and
In 2003, I co-managed Prop H, a police reform charter amendment on the November ballot long before black lives were deemed to matter. When we did anti-apartheid work, the white kids got arrested because it was out of the question for Blacks to take that risk in TX.
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @netfire4 and
Your generation sees this on teh interwebz where my generation confronted it on the streets.
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @TheMarinaTimes and
Unless your an elder rather than middle aged, the violence used on my generation as we protested this last month is without equal since the 60s. Not that there wasn't actual struggles, but if real change had been made Tupac's changes wouldn't still apply. https://youtu.be/eXvBjCO19QY
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The cops have upped the game since Occupy. OPD did brain damage w/rubber bullets. But they'd just kill people back in the day and nobody would ever be the wiser. The veil has been pierced on their horrors and as such they've upped the ante on their approach to neutralize it.
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