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gay-impressionist · 10 months

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france is burning.

667 people were arrested last night. they are curfews in place. public transport is partially closed at night.

nahel, a 17-year-old, was shot tuesday by the police during a traffic stop. he wasn't violent or armed, he wasn't a threat. but he broke the law and tried to drive away, so the cops killed him.

and now france is rioting.

there is a video so the government isn't trying to deny the facts for once. but the minister of the interior (in charge of the police) still insist that the police shot less people since the 2017 law on public safety.

but an analysis of police statistics by Le Monde, the most read newspaper in france, says otherwise. when the police shot on average 250 people each year in the five years prior to 2017, that number became 297 after 2017. for shots fired specifically on moving vehicles, the average used to be 119 and it's now 150. before 2017, there was an average of 0.06 deaths per shot. now it's 0.32.

more than ever, the police shoots to kill.

so france is burning.

#i wanted to write something small because there's nothing on tumblr #but it became longer and longer #i didn't add pictures bc it always seems voyeuristic to me. this isn't click bait. i'm not here to exploit the pain and the anger in any way #but a kid died and hundreds people are being arrested and tumblr doesn't say a word #upthebaguette #whatthefrance #acab #tw death #tw police brutality #france things

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angelnumber27 · 1 year

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The Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund

Tyre Nichols was loved by his community and was known to be gentle, kind, and joyful. He loved skating and was originally from the Bay Area in California. He was known as someone “you know when he comes through the door he wants to give you a hug” and that “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

“He had never been in trouble with the law, not even a parking ticket. He was an honest man, a wonderful son, and kind to everyone. He was quirky and true to himself, and his loss will be felt nationally.”

Btw, the link includes a photo of graphic injuries. View with discretion.

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intersectionalpraxis · 18 days

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stickandthorn · 1 year

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The way Terry Pratchett handled police in the Discworld continues to be one of the many, many things I love about his works. I certainly don’t have time to describe all the details of why he wrote such good policing, but I think the best summation of it is the arc that Sam Vimes had in many of the books.

I haven’t read all the watch books, but in the ones I have, there’s often a similar plot structure. We meet a truly detestable criminal Vimes is chasing down (think the Deep Downers in Thud, or Carcer in Night Watch). They show themselves to be truly awful people who do awful things, and they’re also just plain jackasses. They’re characters you hate to read about, the grind the audience’s gears. They also grind Sam Vimes’s gears.

Throughout the story, they commit more and more crimes. Horrible crimes, like torturing and killing innocent people, or practicing violent religious extremism. They do things that personally target our protagonist, like go after his wife and son, or relentlessly taunt him and try to kill him and his past self. They consistently do bad things, and even as Vimes is chasing them, they do more bad things. You want them to be punished. Finally, at the climax, we get some sort of final confrontation between the villain(s) and Vimes. In a different book, Vimes might kill the people who sent people to hurt his infant son, or tortured and killed innocent people, and the audience would probably cheer. In fact, Vimes wants to kill them.

But he doesn’t. Every time, he suppresses the urge to enact his own justice, and he doesn’t kill them. He arrests them. Because, as he says many times, if you’ll do something for a good reason, you’ll do it for a bad. Even when there’s every excuse as to why this particular villain doesn’t deserve to live, he just arrests them. It’s not his job to decide how they should be punished for their crimes.

I think this is a masterful takedown of police brutality and Punisher style characters. Vimes isn’t a perfect person, it’s not that he could never dream of killing the bad guy. He can, and he does, often. But he never follows through, he understands why he can’t do that, so no matter how tempting it is, he doesn’t.

Because in this story, the hard boiled cynical cop truly believes in following the law. The message is always that law enforcement killing a criminal is never ok, even if they’re undeniably guilty of something truly dreadful. Hell, police brutality is personified as a millennia old demonic quasi-deity possessing Vimes, one that’s never been beaten before, but he beats it and doesn’t give in. I think that’s a really unique message in cop stories, and another reason as to why Pratchett was such a good author.

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #night watch #the watch #sam vimes #thud!#not cr #tw police brutality

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royalarchivist · 26 days

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I wasn't sure what to expect but uh.

It wasn't this.

#Charlie Slimecicle #March 22 2024 #music #tw police brutality #police brutality #I don't know how to tag this but do mind the TWs

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flower-tea-fairies · 1 month

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Black kids deserve to grow up, disabled/neurodivergent black kids deserve to grow up

Rest in power ryan

#black lives matter #blm #blacklivesmatter #ryan gainer #tw police brutality #ftp

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itsaspectrumcomic · 2 months

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I was doing some research asking if autistic people can be on the swat team. This is what I found.

Probably not. The reason is the word “liability.”

In the world of law enforcement, the word liability gets thrown around more than brickbats at a Democrat-led riot in a Democrat controlled city just before election time.

If you were even on the edge of any police involved shooting at all, if some private practice attorney found out that you had autism of any kind, he would use that autism like a sledgehammer on you, the police agency that hired you and against the public/prosecutor’s office. He would beat you into the ground with your autism like it was a weapon. Trust me on this next one, any police officer who gets involved in a shooting gets put under a microscope long before a trial. Before you testify, anywhere in a court the defense will know things about you that your mom doesn’t know. Hell, they’ll make up stuff about you and use it against you just to make you and your agency look bad.

What I’m trying to alert you to is that while you have high functioning autism, and that’s a good thing, you could hurt a police agency in ways that you don’t understand if somebody finds out about it.

Good job I have no intention of ever joining the police then

#ask #anon ask #autism #police violence #tw police brutality #tw shooting #autistic #why would you send me this #also autistic people are statistically more at risk of being targeted by police soo #that should be the more major concern surely

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rottmnt-residuum · 10 months

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part 21

and thus we begin the blitz

⇇ | ⇽(C) | ⇽ (G) | index | ⇾

#rottmnt #rottmnt april o'neal #rottmnt leonardo #rottmnt michelangelo #rottmnt splinter #rottmnt residuum comic #residuum #tw police brutality #tw bruising #c #g

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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter · 1 year

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About the Tyre Nichols lynching by police officers.

The part I'm most stuck on right now. Is after the body cam footage was released (on Vimeo). The number of people reblogging my content leading up to the footage being released saying stuff like "Yeah. I saw the footage on the news and then the news anchors talked about it for a while."

I thought about it, and I'm not going to watch the footage. Because I got all of the information I needed from the lawyers and family talking about it.

He was unarmed.

It lasted 3 minutes.

There were 5 officers.

He was crying for him mom.

His face was unrecognizable.

His neck was broken

His mom couldn't even watch the entire thing.

Even the police chief called it heinous.

Like. There is nothing that can justify that. I don't need any more information than that. That's all the information I need to determine that these officers lynched this man.

Black pain isn't your content. It isn't your airtime. It's not your discussion topics. The lynching of a Black man and Black trauma isn't your discussion topic for profit. It's only your discussion topic to enact change.

What did they even talk about after? Because given the 8 facts above alone, there's nothing to talk about. Shoot. Only the first two points alone is enough to determine that there's nothing to talk about.

Anything beyond an angry rate about how fucked up this was is unadulterated trauma porn. Unadulterated picnic lynching trauma porn.

The ONLY discussion you need to have after that is what events took place in this country to lead up to this level of police brutality and how we're going to fix it.

What the actual fuck.

These people are HURTING. The trauma alone they're experiencing just from knowing this happened it heart breaking. Black people are HURTING. And you're turning it into your trauma porn.

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #acab #1312 #tw lynching mention #lynching #tw lynching #tw police brutality #police brutality #tyre nichols

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the-cat-and-the-birdie · 6 months

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As a black person one of the most comforting and appealing things about Hobie that I didn't even realize was the feeling of 'if I was with him I wouldn't have to worry about the cops cause id be safe with him - he wouldn't let the cops bother me if he was there'

cause I genuinely do worry about the cops and wish I had someone to protect me

i could vent to him about cops and cry with him and not have someone be like 'oh so who you gonna call when someone breaks into your hou-' NOT A COP THEY MIGHT COME KILL ME

And Hobie would understand and know what to say and be there when you run into them and you have to try not to panic - and tell you about your rights and their tactics and help make it so easier

Am I the only one feeling this - he's such a safe person to see as a black person

I need Hobie I am on the floor sobbing I NEED HOBIE.

#thinking about this #not to get sad but like #it's clear we need to be candid about blackness in this community cause some people don't get it lol #Hobie means so much to us #sigh #spiderman #spider man #atsv #marvel #across the spiderverse #hobie brown #spider punk #spiderpunk #tw police brutality #racism #antiblackness

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gay-jewish-bucky · 8 months

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Agent Carter is copaganda, and I'm tired of people acting like police brutality in fiction (or reality) is okay when the cop brutalizing suspects isn't a cishet white man.

It's not feminist, it's not "girl power", it's state violence.

#marvel #mcu #anti marvel #anti mcu #marvel critical #mcu critical #tw police brutality #copaganda

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journeysfable · 7 months

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No but it's so sad that q!Cellbit thinks getting sent to fucking Alcatraz was a good thing. He thinks that's what helped him :( That man instinctively clutches a knife whenever he's nervous! And I'm pretty sure he constantly held a knife in prison. Which is probably a sign prison was stressful environment (no shit).

Idk about Brazilian guards but I remember learning in a special class at school that American guards can beat the shit out of you whenever you want with zero consequences (actually all American police can beat the shit out you with zero consequences :/) I haven't watched that entirety of Fuga Impossivel but I'd be surprised if Cellbit never got physically assaulted in prison.

#qsmp #cellbit #tw police brutality

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lesbianelphie · 10 months

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[HADES]

Who do we call the enemy

My children, my children?

Who do we call the enemy?

The Capitol // Hadestown pt.2 (pt. 1)

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #tw police brutality #hadestown

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intersectionalpraxis · 1 month

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Ryan was also a cross-country running enthusiast who aspired to study engineering. He was murdered heartlessly -lynched by a cop, who are now trying to carefully justify this by saying HE was the violent one... Ryan was on the spectrum of autism, and he was triggered by something before his killers arrived -and although he was being calmed by his father, he became very understandably upset when the cops arrived -and instead of LEAVING Ryan alone and calling in for additional mental health support -and attempting to de-escalate the situation a cop shot him at least 3 times. WTF can a garden tool have on a fucking gun? And not only did these cops LET Ryan bleed to death on the ground, the Sheriff's department has yet to release a full, unedited bodycam video to the family.

The cops have been called a handful of times previously, so they knew Ryan had autism. These cops need to be held accountable, and there needs to be better interventions with mental health crises. Cops should NEVER be on the front lines for this. They're not educated, trained, or have the abilities to help people -especially kids and youths in vulnerable situations.

Ryan, may you rest in peace and power.