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And, yeah, it's murder. I am comfortable calling police killing people in mental health crisis, people they are supposed to HELP, murder.
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There is a whole system here designed, not to keep people safe as it claims, but to keep people compliant.
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Failure to comply, even when you are literally UNABLE to comply, is increasingly likely to end in you being murdered by that system.
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ESPECIALLY when you are already obviously not compliant with societal norms (translation: when you are marginalized and they can tell).
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I'm... sad. I'm angry. And I do not trust police anywhere near someone in mental health crisis.
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I definitely do not trust police anywhere near someone in mental health crisis who is visibly marginalized in any other way.
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And it's worth it to keep police away from Disabled people in general, not just folks in MH crisis.
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Police kill DDBDDHH folks, folks using wheelchairs, folks having seizures, Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent folks not in MH crisis.
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This is systemic ableism, often interacting with many other systemic oppressions.
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It's also important to note that there are NO official statistics on police use of force incidents toward Disabled ppl.
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Which means that going by media coverage of these incidents is about the best way to get an overview of what's going on.
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Been thinking about this tweet. I think "even" should be changed to "especially."
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Failure to comply, even when you are literally UNABLE to comply, is increasingly likely to end in you being murdered by that system.
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And also, to clarify, when I talk about being unable to comply, I mean both with given demands from police AND having a privileged identity.
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The more apparently privileged you are, the less likely police are to kill you. Because social norms benefit/expect privilege.
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And if your skin is not white or you don't fit into a clear gender binary box or you are obviously Disabled... you can't comply w/norms.
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In other words, just existing as a marginalized person is failure to comply and police murder people for that regularly.
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