The three words “I Can’t Breathe” refer to what some police brutality victims, like George Floyd, Eric Garner and Manuel Ellis, said before their untimely deaths at the hands of law enforcement.

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    we’ve seen this since ancient Egyptian times.

    No, no, no… don’t pretend that police is some “ancient aspect” of civilization - police, as an institution, is a very recent invention. In fact, the police as we know it today is a purely capitalist and colonialist invention. Do not pretend otherwise.

    The police are necessary for society to function

    That can only be true if you believe that protecting the property of wealthy parasites at the expense of everybody else is (somehow) “necessary for society to function.”

    the police were nothing but supportive to u

    That might have something to do with the fact that your protest posed absolutely zero threat to the status quo - you know, the status quo that was busy doing it’s best to turn women into little more than breeding stock for the patriarchy?

    Stop apologizing for the right-wing goon institution just because they haven’t targeted you… yet.