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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
riotmuffin@ni.hil.ist ("Luigi Muffingione") wrote:

The 2020 Uprising: That's Not How It Happened -- a short book review and essay by me, hosted at @edistro, busting the bullshit narrative advanced in Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie's purportedly-abolitionist book "No More Police", which pretty much gets it all wrong. (Printable zine download at the link too).

Spoiler: it wasn't petitions, peaceful protests, and submitting to police brutality that made the uprising happen.

https://lib.edist.ro/library/2020-uprising-kaba-ritchie-no-more-police

the cover of the zine features the title and an angled, upside down photo of an infamous outdoor event, in which nonprofit organizers arranged the words "DEFUND POLICE" in giant letters next to a stage to which they invited city council members to talk about how they supported doing so. you can guess what those same city council members did as soon as the looting and rioting died down.