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Introduction to Police Brutality and Nonviolence
Introduction to Police Brutality and Nonviolence
What is Violence?
What constitutes as "violence" in this culture? Who commits it? How do we identify, respond, punish, and solve it? Obviously as a radical Black community organizer, I see it very differently from the way the state does. While this judge is quick to demonize Black youths for engaging in a form of "thuggish" violence, I instead think of the police, their need to exert themselves and be validated in a violent, hyper-masculine brotherhood being much the same, though the police are state-sanctioned, culturally co-signed, and much more powerful, damaging, dangerous, bloody, and violent than gangs. They also have different authorities, positions, and roots in this culture of violence. That violence is a cycle, and here’s how it breaks down
Conclusion
We now would like to invite you all to move forward with us to Calder Plaza to pay tribute to Eric Garner and all victims of police violence.
Thank You
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The state’s solution to this is:
STATE VIOLENCE: Police & Military state, Prison Industrial Complex, School-to-Prison Pipeline, repeated imprisonment, lack of rehabilitation resources, criminal records leading to lack of job/housing opportunities and access which creates broken communities and homes. Which then justifies the existence of the state, thus starting the cycle all over again.
ROOT CAUSES OF VIOLENCE, THE STATE:
- Christian, Imperialist, Eurocentric, White, Cis, Hetero-patriarchal society, its systems and institutions, and their resulting racism and classism, which leads to very serious lack of access to resources, little to no social mobility, housing/education/food disparity and violence, cultural and social patriarchy and -isms which normalizes and socializes state violence and places us in easily identifiable binaries and boxes and therefore exploitable roles which through which capitalism exploits us aggressively for labor. See us into individualist consumers and cogs in the wheel.
What is non-violence?
Which causes and leads to:
- "BLACK" CRIME: Theft, fraud, property damage, domestic violence, sex work, drug & human trafficking, gang warfare, substance usage, etc. The conditions of competition, violence, lack of resources etc make money (AKA capital) the ultimate goal and need. These are the ensuing signs of duress and results of living in a violent state.
- How we resist against violence
- Justice vs. Peace
- Direct, Disruptive, Unapologetic
- People are NOT the enemies
- Compassionate towards truths of violence in culture
- Taking a stance AGAINST violence