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#DefundThePolice

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"More veterans die by suicide every two days than were killed in action in 2019."

Dean Spade: "Where there are U.S. military bases, there is intense sexual and gender-based violence. This includes sexual violence towards women living near military bases, towards sex workers of all genders, towards women inside the U.S. military, and harassment and sexual violence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans. This is just a normal part of what U.S. militarism is. It's inseparable from the culture. Rape as a tactic of U.S. militarism is as old as U.S. militarism itself, going all the way back to the systemic rape of Indigenous people to colonize and settle North America."

"Trans inclusion in the military, like marriage equality, does nothing to redistribute wealth, stop police violence, housing and health care crises plaguing queer and trans communities."

“When it comes to trans advocacy, we want to ask what reforms will save trans people’s lives. The answers are clear: access to housing, income, food, childcare, health care. Military inclusion advocacy does not make the list.”

"What is effective and pragmatic is whatever reduces contact with the police".

by Wren Sanders, 2021, them.us/story/case-against-lgb 🧵

Them. · The Case Against LGBTQ+ Military Inclusion, ExplainedVon Wren Sanders

Habt ihr euch schon immer gefragt, ob #defundthepolice #PolizeiAbschaffen #polizeiabbau einen theoretischen Unterbau haben? Ja, haben sie: Den #Abolitionismus

In der verlinkten #deutschlandfunk #hörsaal Episode geht es genau darum.

"Die Philosophie des Abolitionismus will das staatliche Gewaltmonopol abschaffen. Welche Argumente der Ansatz dafür anführt und wie Sicherheit stattdessen entstehen soll, erklärt der Politikwissenschaftler Michael Haus in seinem Vortrag."

deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag

Fortgeführter Thread

Of all the things that might be cut from Portland, Oregon's budget, the most popular choice is the police!

"42% of Portlanders approve of spending cuts to police, the highest level of approval"

Yet the Mayor wants to INCREASE funding to police.

Who is the Mayor working for?

#DefundThePolice
#PortlandOR #PDX

portland.gov/council/districts

Fatal police violence in Oldenburg (Germany)

On April 20, 2025, there was allegedly an altercation outside a bar in Oldenburg in which Lorenz, who belonged to the BPoC community, allegedly used an irritant sprayer. He then fled and when the police came across him, he allegedly approached them in a "threatening" manner. He was then shot several times, whereupon he died.

The autopsy revealed that Lorenz was only shot from behind, including in the head. Shots that hit a victim of police violence from behind cannot be reconciled with a claim of self-defense at first or second glance. Apparently Lorenz was walking away from the person using the firearm and not "threatening" him.

A look back to the 90s

Among other things, the case is reminiscent of the shooting of a Greek citizen who was shot in the back by a Bavarian policewoman in Nuremberg on October 4, 1996. She claimed to have seen a gun, but none was found. The following year, she was sentenced by the district court to a small fine of 4,000 DM for "putative self-defense", i.e. a delusional assumption of self-defense. I mention this case of lethal police violence because it makes the standards by which the justice system measures itself particularly clear. Because two years later, a (different) Bavarian district court sent the singer-songwriter Hans Söllner a penalty order for DM 120,000 (no, the comma hasn't slipped) because he is said to have violated the honor of the then Bavarian Interior Minister Beckstein.

Call for a demonstration in Oldenburg

A demonstration is now being called for Friday, April 25, 2025 in Oldenburg to commemorate the death of 21-year-old Lorenz as a result of police fatal shots.

Nachdem an Ostern die Polizei in Oldenburg, Lorenz umgebracht hat, indem er von der Polizei durch mehrere Schüsse von hinten tödlich getroffen wurde, können es staatliche Beschäftigte nicht lassen, ihn zu diffamieren.

Der #spiegel berichtet, dass Lorenz angeblich "für die Polizei kein Unbekannter (gewesen sei): Gegen ihn liefen Ermittlungsverfahren unter anderem wegen Körperverletzung, Widerstand gegen Polizeibeamte, Raub und Nötigung"

Auch sei in seiner Hosentasche ein Klappmesser gefunden worden, raunt der Spiegel.

Erst staatliche Hetze und Falschberichte, jetzt wo die Felle langsam wegzuschwimmen drohen, bedient man sich der Massenmedien um das von der Polizei hinterrücks erschossene Opfer zu diskreditieren und in eine Täterposition zu schieben.

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@CrimethInc solid “blue” states politicians also suspect support to #defundthepolice so they cut social services, deferred maintenance and arts programs in favor of increasing “criminal justice” budgets. Interestingly, in Seattle, the city still can’t recruit all the cops Council wants, despite massive signing bonuses, cop city perks. Even potential police candidates are not interested. There’s more progressive utopian vision than media might have you think.
#DontMakeMyCityAThemePark

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@Thumptastic3 I know, it's terrible how they treated this poor lady, who was trying her best to comply, and had a really good attitude. Here is another one, from a week later, I suspect the police were targeting her, to meet their arrest quota for that day. youtube.com/watch?v=cKdJ5omz1N #racism #policebrutality #blm #defundthepolice

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“There is a tendency among people to defer to a computer result, which is natural,” ... “But I think that if you’re integrating that kind of technology into a high stakes set of circumstances where there’s a massive power imbalance, it becomes very difficult to guard against that end result.”

Bain agrees: “Police are not trained to think. The analysts are not thinkers. The analyst goes by what information the technological equipment spits out. And the AI equipment is already biased from the beginning.”