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Statement of Solidarity & Support from APTP Sacramento's Mental Health First

The Anti Police-Terror Project is here to support our Sacramento community in the wake of last night’s mass shooting. We are making Mental Health First Sacramento, our mental health crisis hotline, available immediately. If you are impacted by last night's shooting, please call: 916-670-4062. Our team of trained volunteers are able to listen and provide resources.

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Nearly 2 years after the 2020 uprisings, the war on Black lives continues

Neoliberals and the state seized on the conviction of Derek Chauvin as an opportunity to spin a narrative that America was marching toward post-racial bliss so protesters could stop marching in the streets, quit embarrassing the U.S. on the international stage, and go home. Even President Joe Biden said the Chauvin verdict could “be a moment of significant change.”

Slow down, Joe.

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The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict just handed white vigilantes a de facto badge

For the second time in a year, the globe watched to see whether there would be justice for Black life in an American courtroom. The first, of course, was the trial of Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd in May 2020, resulting in worldwide uprisings. The result was a conviction. Chauvin was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for kneeling on Floyd’s back for almost nine minutes while Floyd cried for his mama and said, “I can’t breathe.”

Not so on Friday.

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Putting white men on trial doesn’t equal justice for Black people

In three courtrooms, in three American cities, the same familiar scene is unfolding. With arrogance, disdain, and even laughter, white men who have committed egregious acts of violence in the name of white supremacy are supposedly facing consequences. But rather than criminal trials—or in the Charlottesville, Virginia, case, a civil trial—we are watching how baked into the justice system white supremacy really is.

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Are Oakland police ready to emerge from federal oversight? Not a chance

Last week, in a Pinteresque public safety plot twist, the case was made that the Oakland Police Department should be granted early exit from the federal oversight they have been under for about two decades.

Not “early” because they finished the 51 required tasks needed to exit oversight ahead of schedule. Nope, that would have meant completion before 2008. “Early” because they would be allowed to exit without having finished at all. OPD remains uncompliant with five tasks relating to use-of-force investigations, internal affairs complaint procedures and investigation timelines, tracking stop data, and discipline consistency.

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Oakland just gave us a Hillary Clinton 'super predator' moment

We all want safe streets. I am raising a teenage daughter in this city. I want to not be terrified every time that she walks out the door. Which I am. Bullets fly with abandon on Oakland streets.

But if we are not safe with a police budget of $350 million a year, what is the magic number that will make a militarized police department and violent carceral state work to create safe communities?

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