as long as police have weapons and impunity, they will go on killing us. 
as an institution, policing itself is violent and oppressive to the core. 
the thousands of murders individual officers perpetrate are just the tip of the iceberg. 
how can we measure the daily anxiety, the acute terror, the petty humiliations, the impact 
of family members being kidnapped and shaken down that so many people experience every time they must engage with infuriating arrogance grinning from behind a badge? 
from their origin in slave patrols to today’s high-tech spy drones and predictive policing algorithms, police have never existed to protect us.
the chant “who keeps us safe? we keep us safe!” is more than a slogan—it’s a necessity. 
there is no safety we can count on that is not built on our trust and relationships 
with each other.
so what will it take for us to end police murders once and for all? 
nothing short of a revolution.
but that revolution isn’t a distant utopia or a single spasm. 
it’s an ongoing process of building relationships, sharing resources, defending ourselves, undoing the interlocking structures of white supremacy, and organizing to meet our needs together without police or politicians—and it’s already happening. 
it’s time for each and every one of us to choose a side and take a stand. 
as the courageous protestors in minneapolis and beyond have shown us, not even the power of the police is absolute. 
together, we can overcome their violence and build a new world.

the collective
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—popular resistance