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WE ARE WHAT WE CONTINUALLY ACCEPT

 Community policing ONLY!


Fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces!


Again, it’s not an isolated incident if we each have a story.


“On May 15, 2010, police apprehended Browder and a friend on Arthur Avenue near East 186th Street in the Belmont section of the Bronx. 


Browder said he was going home from a party. He thought the police were carrying out a routine stop-and-frisk, a police procedure he had undergone on a number of occasions.”


Kalief’s bail was $10,000 which means that a mere $900 would’ve set him free.


The question is not how we can’t even come up with a mere $900, but how we continue to stomach their leeching off of our Black bodies?!?


Do you know that the former Black attorney general did a study (they paid mainly white educators to do it) showing that out of 21,000 Ferguson residents, 16,000 had outstanding warrants?!?


Do you know that another county had fired 15 of their white cops from elsewheres 


who were soon after rehired in Ferguson, including Darren Wilson, the murderer of Michael Brown?


It’s like there’s some sort of spell preventing folk from seeing the obvious. Either we break the spell or the spell breaks us.


Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes.


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