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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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
They're going to argue that even if the training is wrong that the officer is not responsible for the death. They're going to argue that he was both following the training and under a deeply stressful situation.
This will be how they play every single witness, providing the same no-win lose lose line of questioning and loading up both sides of their argument with witnesses. All witnesses will be forced into supporting either one side of their argument or the other. Jury is going to be a mess.
I actually doubt that the training is wrong. Because the entire veneer of accountability by cops to civies is that they are trained professionals and have procedures to handle these situations. So unless the defense is really ready to argue "hey the cops manual says you should murder someone if they are initially noncooperative", then the prosecutor can argue, what kind of person joins the force, murderers, do.
I'm getting frustrated, this is just heartbreaking.
Yeah the training almost certainly doesn't say to do that. But the combination of "following the training" and "getting it wrong in a stressful situation" is what will create the mess in the jury.
You don't need to prove jackshit as a defender of the cops in this scenario you just need to undermine the responsibility of this particular cop in the eyes of the jury. That is enough to prevent prosecution.