There are so many cases where people have been beaten, killed, criminalized, abused or sexually assaulted by cops they were told to run to for help. That's true particularly for young people, and particularly for young women, queer and trans people. It's just heartbreaking.

That's why we're abolitionists, because we can't tolerate this as survivors ourselves, and as people who care for survivors and young people who are experiencing harm. For them to experience additional harm, in this case deadly, from the people we're pouring billions of dollars into — it's just heartbreaking and infuriating.

--Andrea Ritchie from this really nice January interview with her and Mariam Kaba in Teen Vogue:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mariame-kaba-andrea-ritchie-no-more-police

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