Quick Hits | Kids in Cuffs, CRT in the Classroom, NYPD Predict Self-Purge
If we abolish police, who will arrest Black children for drawing at school?
Police officers went to a school to arrest 10-year-old American Black girl for the offense of drawing a picture that had angered the parent of another student. She was handcuffed in front of school staff and her classmates and then walked outside and stuffed inside a squad car.
Let this be a lesson to all police and carceral state abolitionists – if we abolish American policing, who will traumatize and arrest little Black girls for the crime of drawing pictures?
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Former Elizabeth Warren campaign surrogate and a leader behind the “Team Trans” Netflix walkout demonstration over comedian Dave Chappelle’s recently released transphobic special Ashlee Marie Preston tweeted out some homophobic and anti-Asian messages years ago. The comments, which first garnered widespread attention during her time working with the Warren campaign, are sad, bigoted, and deeply unfunny.
Preston has apologized for the hate speech, though if she isn’t careful she might end up with a $20 million offer from Netflix to film her own comedy special.
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Professional basketball star Kyrie Irving has come under fire this month for refusing to give Americans healthcare, increase hospital capacity during a pandemic, nationalize pharmaceutical production and distribution or at least open up vaccine patents to increase availability, refusing to share vaccine doses with countries of the Global South, and for operating ethnic concentration camps inside U.S. borders.
I’m sorry…no. That would be President Joe Biden and the Democratically controlled U.S. Congress.
Irving is just one guy who believes in flat-earth and doesn’t want to get a shot.
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A video of a schoolteacher in ethnically diverse Riverside, CA putting on an unwanted racist, anti-indigenous show on for students for minutes on end, complete with a stereotypical costume, hoots, hollers, and mocking dance was recently released through social media. You can watch some of the footage below.
Reactionaries think that kids are being taught critical race theory in the classrooms. No, they are being subjected to this 18th century style racism.
Millionaire conservatives like Dave Chappelle insist that the world is just too sensitive and PC now, that people don’t feel free to speak their mind. Sure, that’s why this teacher felt comfortable and confident planning and delivering this performance to a room of silent children in the year 2021.
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After New York City announced that all city workers will need to be vaccinated against covid-19, the city’s police department commissioner Dermot Shea predicted that half of his officers would refuse to comply and would instead quit their job.
“We’re going to lose half of our cops and half of our fire department if this goes through, and then what?” Shea said.
Who knew all we needed in order to effectively defund police was to tell them to get shots and wear masks? Perhaps we should try telling them showers and exercise are mandatory and we might completely abolish it.
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Before we leave, here’s a photo gallery of our courageous men in blue arresting small, defenseless children: