Gigi 🍄🟫A really solid article about the state of Toronto protest policing.
It leverages the injury stats that we collect as Orange Hats, but it goes well beyond that.
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Policing institutions are highly organized, funded, and ideologically mobilized militant forces that serve the capitalist-colonial global paradigm — nothing they do is (or can be) done in an apolitical vacuum. For that reason, the surrounding social-political context helps us assess the material underpinnings of why the state behaves violently toward certain groups, but not others, even if they’re all racialized.
The above Orange Hats report came just a few days before something seemingly unrelated happened. The official TPS Instagram account posted a now-viral reel in support of the United States-Israeli-backed Pahlavi regime change movement on February 2nd, and noted how there were “zero incidents” at a protest the day before.
The full caption of the Toronto Police reel that has amassed 4.3 million views and 200,000+ likes reads as such:
150,000 demonstrators and
zero incidents.
Thanks to the meticulous
planning, effective on‑the‑ground
work, and professionalism of
our members and specialized
units [emphasis added],
yesterday’s event in the heart
of our city remained safe and
peaceful.
When the police say there was ‘no incident’, all that usually means is no one was arrested. In a reality where fascists and neo-Nazis are protected to roam freely, while pro-Palestinian and Indigenous people get arrested after state thugs drive an unmarked car or ride horses into them, what exactly does Toronto Police claim ‘no incidents’ actually reveal?
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Read the full article:
https://praxisarchives.substack.com/p/the-true-scale-of-toronto-police
#Toronto #TorontoActions #TorontoActivists #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish
