Free protesters who’ve been incarcerated for exercising their First Amendment rights is one part of Ten Demands for Justice demand #7:

Repeal all anti-protest laws. Terminate all officers guilty of arresting or applying unnecessary and excessive force against protesters, for violation of their Civil Rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Ban the use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and all other crowd-dispersal methods. Strip police authority to issue dispersal orders. Expunge all protest-related convictions, and free all protesters in jail or prison.

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In an abolitionist society, peacekeepers and wellness checks replace cops and patrols

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Police only solve 2% of all major crimes.

And research has shown that being stopped by police, regardless of a person’s prior criminal activity, predicts an increase in future criminal behavior.

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Ten Demands For Justice demand 2:

Disarm all law enforcement, including police officers and security guards, starting immediately with all military-grade weaponry and equipment. Enforce Abuse of Force laws. Make all body and dash cam footage public. End the federal 1033 Program that provides military weaponry to local police departments. Pass HR 1714, the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. Require all Byrne Grants be used for non-carceral alternatives to incarceration, instead of police department militarization. End all grants from the Department of Homeland Security, Joint Terrorism Task Force, FBI and federal Justice Department. End all Pentagon giveaway defense appropriations. End all militarized international police training exchange programs. Cancel all police and government contracts with private and public institutions that develop surveillance technologies. Establish national, state and local legal restrictions to prevent police departments from purchasing or using military weaponry.

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For TEN DEMANDS, defunding is merely step one. And defunding will serve no purpose if those tax dollars are re-invested in alternative forms of carceral punishment.

Ten For Justice calls for the reallocation of police funds to social services, particularly in the communities most impacted by overpolicing and mass incarceration.

Ten For Justice lays the groundwork for making police and prisons obsolete.

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A reference to all the efforts nationwide to defund police departments, which, even when successful, falls significantly short as an isolated measure.

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A reference to nothing changing after the police chocking murder of Eric Garner in NYC, who made the phrase “I can’t breathe” famous.

Little more than 5 years later, George Floyd was murdered by suffocation in Minneapolis, and he repeated “I can’t breathe” 11 times over a 9-minute span before his death.

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A reference to protesting against police, using whatever we can to defend ourselves against their guns, batons and teargas

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A reference to people being forced to sell drugs to earn a living

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“According to the Urban Institute, in 2017, American state and local governments spent $115 billion on policing. If you add in the cost of incarcerating the people police arrest, the total comes out to $194 billion…

“When you zoom out over the past 30 years, police spending has grown by 445 percent, according to the Justice Policy Institute. This funding boom is happening even though, according to the FBI, violent crime has steadily decreased since the 1990s. How much we spend on police is even more staggering when you look at it at the city level.”

And where is this money coming from? Our tax dollars.

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