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Five years after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a cracker murderpig named Derek Chauvin, it's easy to look at police murder and use of force statistics, as well as a white nationalist Trump regime, and conclude the 2020 uprising failed; which is precisely what a pro-cop liberal "reformist" chatterati is doing. The reality is however that "a system cannot fail those it was never designed to protect" and the lack of legislative progress to protect our civil rights from police abuses falls on the elected reformers not advocates and abolitionists in the streets. The 2020 Uprising taught us to band together because we are all targets in for the carceral state in the right circumstances; and just in time too, because Donald Trump is dead serious about transforming law enforcement into his own fascist army.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/30

The Widening Maw of Racialized Police Violence

"The reality is that Downmarket Mussolini has only been back in the White House for four and a half months, and these police killing statistics go back years into a Biden administration that was elected in part, to specifically stop racialized police violence in response to the protests; the city where George Floyd was slowly murdered on camera by a sociopathic cop is in a Democratic-controlled State, run by one of the most progressive Governors in America. For a larger liberal establishment in the United States that had no answer for Trump at the ballot box to point at the Kelpto Kaiser’s racist authoritarian regime and declare the movement against police violence and white supremacist policing has failed, is one part deflection, and one part scapegoating. It is ultimately reductive to argue that the 2020 George Floyd protests were by themselves responsible for the broader fascist “white-lash” driving Trump’s second rise to power in an already white supremacist America, and disempowering to believe organized resistance against that white supremacy accomplished nothing merely because a state that was never designed to protect racialized people, or the labor class in general, refused to take meaningful action against police violence. Those hard-fought hours in the streets opened a broad swathe of society’s eyes to the racist and violent nature of American policing, taught communities across the globe how to organize in the face of state-sanctioned repression, and helped make so many young people “woke” that the fascist Trump regime is trying to make “wokeness” illegal. We cannot un-see what we have observed, or unknow what we learned during the uprising, and the affliction of knowing cannot be cured with rubber bullets and tear gas."

Note: I literally had to take yesterday off just to edit this one and find all the source links. It's a bit longer, and this content has never appeared outside NIDC.

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · The Widening Maw of Racialized Police Violence | on NIDCOn the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder, our struggle against violent murderpigs rages across even more frontiers as the second Trump era unfolds.

George Floyd was murdered. That is a fact. Blaming his death on anything other than murder by police is a lie.

Lying about the murder of George Floyd is a cynical, malicious effort to provide cover for ongoing police violence and to promote white nationalism.

George Floyd's life mattered. Remembering the truth of how he was murdered matters.

flipboard.com/@aljazeera/globa

Al Jazeera - Madison Czopek | PolitiFact · Five years after George Floyd’s death, why misinformation still persistsBy Al Jazeera - Madison Czopek | PolitiFact

Retired judge Wally Oppal, the adjudicator of a public hearing looking into the 2019 Christmas Day death of 43-year-old Lisa Rauch, found that the officer who shot and killed her using less-lethal #ARWEN rounds was not justified in his use of force.

The spring 2024 hearing, requested by Rauch's family, and done under an adjudicator appointed by B.C.'s #police #watchdog, looked at the evidence and circumstances that led to #VictoriaPolice Department officer Ron Kirkwood fatally shooting Rauch in the back of the head with three rounds of what is supposed to be non-lethal ammunition.

saanichnews.com/local-news/ret

Saanich News · Retired judge says Victoria officer's use of force not justified in 2019 deathBy Bailey Seymour

↕️ Renverse.co ↕️ Mort d'un homme aux mains de la police : réaction de la soeur de Nzoy: “Je suis la sœur d'un homme qui a également perdu la vie sous les balles de la police. Ma voix tremble et mon cœur est lourd tandis que j'écris ces lignes. Ce n'est pas facile pour moi, mais je le fais parce que c'est nécessaire” renverse.co/analyses/article/m #JusticePourNzoy #PoliceViolence #DroitsDeLHomme #Solidarité #FinDeLImpunité

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The State defends "its own" and it thinks, incredibly, that "its own" is the #police or the gendarmes, and not the victims, the citizens.

"The State constantly is putting itself in the position of making those who exercise their rights be perceived as problematic and illegal or scandalous actions be perceived as natural: seeing the body of the deceased or #demonstrating is natural but it becomes forbidden."

—Geoffroy de #Lagasnerie in 2017

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"Performing non-heteronormative bodies and behaviours is associated with being perceived as risky, dangerous and deviant. The correlation between queerness and deviance leads to a number of detrimental consequences, including police over-policing and criminalizing young LGBTQ+ individuals in public spaces, queer people underreporting hate crime incidents for fear of secondary victimization, and overall scepticism and mistrust towards the criminal justice system."

A study published in 2021, conducted in Europe, by Rachele Girardi: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10