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Juggling With Eggs

@steely_glint

‘Ella…was held in police custody for more than 12 hours, was not allowed to telephone her parents or a solicitor, and her student accommodation was raided by police at 2am on Friday.’

The more I read about this raid on a #Quaker meeting house of young pacifist, but politically and climate concerned women…the more I want to know who in the #Met authorised it. They need to be held to public account…what honestly has happened to policing by consent of the people?

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christophwarner

Yesterday while on the upper east side, right behind the MET in Central Park. I watched a NYPD cruiser berate a small group of musicians playing jazz because they had a small speaker. What really irked me about it was that the officers didn’t get out of their cruiser and have a conversation. The officer driving used his PA speaker from the cruiser, the irony! Then to further the spectacle of how we’ve lost the plot here, he’s driving on a path littered with NYC pedestrians of all walks of life on a spring NYC day in a goddamn cruiser. Policing in this country needs a serious overhaul with federal guidelines. I no longer believe it’s salvageable in any capacity.

edit: this is still so visceral an image to me of how disconnected that organization is. As a black man in America there are many reasons for me to tell my son to stay away from police. Yesterday he got to see a simple interaction and he’s not even a decade old. A young child thinks they could have handled the situation better. What are we doing as a society?!
#nypd #centralpark #policing #MET #police

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