I’ll say this for people who’ve never seen it in action:
Un-arresting works
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Cops never expect people to do it.
They expect, and usually get, the bystander effect.
It doesn’t even take guns or weapons.
It takes numbers and daring.
In basically every situation, cops are outnumbered.
Shane Becker
in reply to Shane Becker • • •Un-arresting is community self defense
In the most direct visceral way
Once you see it in action, changes you.
It reveals the fiction.
Emperor’s clothes.
Once you un-arrest someone or get un-arrested, you are forever transformed. There’s no going back.
Shane Becker
in reply to Shane Becker • • •How many videos have we seen a cop (or a few) slowly brutally murdering someone?
While dozens of people stand around screaming, begging, recording as it happens right in front of them?
I guaran goddamn fucking tee it, first person that jumps in to help is immediately followed by everyone else
Shane Becker
in reply to Shane Becker • • •We know this because we’ve seen it.
Anytime a crowd, a community, a neighborhood has the audacity to push back on the fiction that a few cops are more powerful than way way more people…
We see cops turn tail terrified and leave. Urgently. Falling all over themselves in the process.
Shane Becker
in reply to Shane Becker • • •The state is more scared of un-arresting than mass protests or head to head confrontation
Un-arresting breaks the veil and unlock new possibilities inside of people
And it changes the on the ground truth in that moment and tactics required
Geraint
in reply to Shane Becker • • •Glasgow Kenmure Street is an excellent example of people power.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-gla…
Police release men from immigration van blocking Glasgow street
BBC NewsRaptor
in reply to Shane Becker • • •Antifa International (@antifaintl@kolektiva.social)
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in reply to Shane Becker • • •Eli Wallach's favorite Bass
in reply to Shane Becker • • •I also think that these detention centers are like low-hanging fruit. They are guarding people as if they are dangerous prisoners that the public wants protection from, you don't need a lot of guards for that, but they really should be guarded more like a fortress because they're not doing something popular