Please comment any resources, mutual aid groups, etc. And ill add.
"May I add to your resource list a really great website: http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/
And also recommend Assata the autobiography by Assata Shakur. Really shows the pigs for what they are."
Yes, we mean literally abolish the police by Mariame Kaba
##Reading Recommendations
Alexander, M - 'The New Jim Crow' (2010)
Davis, A - 'Are Prisons Obsolete' (2003)
Jackson, G. - 'Blood in My Eye' (1972)
Vitale A.S - 'The End of Policing' (2017)
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/
https://twitter.com/prisonculture
https://archive.is/XUJu8
https://abolitionistfutures.com/full-reading-list
http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Building-an-Abolitionist-Trans-Queer-Movement-With-Everything-Weve-Got.pdf
Very briefly I've seen it on CNN, from what I could gather the defense seemed more interested in attacking the character of the witnesses instead of defending Chauvin as a good cop. I'd guess it really doesn't matter because we all know Chauvin is going to walk or get a slap on the wrist.
A bit odd strategically, since the video tells a lot of the story on its own. Maybe they just haven't gotten to that part of their case yet.
Yeah I think this strategy will backfire. They keep trying to paint the scene as an angry mob in a dangerous area of the city but a bunch of the witnesses are children and teenagers and every person who saw it from every angle had the exact same read on the situation. You can't watch those videos and see "angry mob" instead of "concerned citizens". The "mob" of people were yelling things like "check his pulse!" and "do CPR!"... this strategy is just not going to land.
Yes and at first, they were telling Floyd to stop fighting and get in the car for his own good until it was clear that he was unresponsive and the cops just sat there.
It doesn't matter whether we can't, it matters whether the jury can, the jury that had everyone aware of BLM weeded out of it.
Heres a hint: a lot of black people live in that area of minneapolis.