Mastodawn

When I tell you that police are not designed to do what you think they're designed to do, you don't believe me.

81 kids, zip tied for hours, until some peed themselves.

While in other parts of the city, car break-ins happened.🤡

Later, you'll ask me why they don't trust cops.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jacqi_rose/video/7257969336365763883

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What happened to these kids is not a joke, but the way that SFPD is trying to explain their actions should be looked at like one. There were blatant lies told, obvious contradictions made, all adding up to the same thing: these actions are inexcusable. Please go to the previous videos to hear the first hand accounts of folks who were there.

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For folks wondering what the kids got arrested for...
* San Francisco has steep hills with iconic views
* Skateboarders love to skate fast down these steep hills. This is called a "hill bomb."
* Every year there's a big event on Dolores Hill, where skateboarders gather from all over to skate down the hill.
* Cops hate this. So they do things like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs1WXfGLtXg

Shoulder checking a person on a skateboard that has no path to avoid you, is just evil.

Angry Fallout Over Skaterboarder-Cop Collision At San Francisco Dolores Park

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Shoulder checking kids on skateboards, or zip tie-ing children for hours until they urinate on themselves, or mass arresting 81 kids, does not make anyone safer. It's just cruel.

In fact, it makes everyone objectively less safe. It reduces the chances of any crime being solved, because none of those kids will call the cops now, no matter what they witness. 🤷🏿‍♂️

The great paradox of US policing, is that the only proven way to consistently reduce open air drug markets, is to do *less* policing. 🙂🙃

Because policing is mostly brutalizing Black folk.🤷🏿‍♂️

And that makes Black folk not trust the cops.

These skateboard kids of all races, ages, and genders, just got a small taste of what it feels like to be policed. They can't unlearn that.

No one wants to be policed.

Everyone wants to feel safe.

We're supposedly trying to bring business and tourism back to SF. The Dolores Hill Bomb is one of the most iconic things in skateboarding. Other cities can't replicate it. It's quintessentially SF!

Valparaiso is smarter about it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuSjk7jv_M

Skateboard kids should be complaining about the commercialization of their precious Hill Bomb as corporate sponsors pay to put logos up and down the safely blocked off streets.

But we went straight to cops over-reaction. It's what we know.🤷🏿‍♂️

Insane Urban DH Mountain Bike POV - Red Bull Valparaiso Cerro Abajo 2015

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JD Jul 21, 2023

@mekkaokereke that is one hell of a ride. Holy moly.

Rufus J. Cooter Jul 21, 2023

@mekkaokereke
STFG, i been on this planet for half a century and I have never understood why TF cops hate kids so much

They're F'ing kids! Just, like, let them live, Officer Krupke!

Weasel Jul 21, 2023

@RufusJCooter @mekkaokereke
Because bullies prefer victims smaller than themselves.

kira :3 Jul 21, 2023

@mekkaokereke ironic thought but i follow a lot of people from around the bay & i don't think i've heard of anyone being a victim of like, street crime, the impression i have is that the real dangers are overpolicing, new age cyberpunk hell police policy experiments, self-driving cars, tech bros (getting stabbed by), and tech bros (general)

Russell Neches Jul 21, 2023

@chrisisgr8 @mekkaokereke A few months before I moved out of Oakland, a guy rammed me with his car while I was riding my bicycle, and then got out and beat the crap out of me. Does that count as "street crime?"

I got a really, really close look at his "thin blue line" bumper sticker from the ground.

kira :3 Jul 21, 2023

@ryneches wow, that's fucked up, I'm sorry that happened. though given that detail, I would suspect it might fall under police brutality

Russell Neches Jul 21, 2023

@chrisisgr8 He used a PIT maneuver with his car, and joint locks to dislocate my shoulder and hip. So, yeah.

Alexander The 1st Jul 21, 2023

@ryneches @chrisisgr8 @mekkaokereke I feel like the latter part should just automatically qualify, but the former part made me initially think it was like a car accident, which *usually*, on its own, doesn't count as a crime.

But what they did along it certainly seems to break that "usually clause"; problem is that cops couldn't really do anything to stop that street crime...only respond to it after the fact.

Rob Ricci Jul 21, 2023

For anyone else reading this thread who wants to know what cops are, and are not, for, may I recommend "The End of Policing" by Alex Vitale. Next time a politician tries to tell you that a problem - basically any problem - can be solved with more policing, you'll know better.

Blake Garner Jul 21, 2023

@mekkaokereke love this video! Red Bull is a bit of wishing a billionaire would solve the problem tho. Would love to see & support a community sponsor.

sporp Jul 21, 2023

@mekkaokereke California is so good at doing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to counterculture movements.

Robots can be gay deal with it Jul 21, 2023

@mekkaokereke Cops don't want to solve crimes, they wanna feel like the Punisher and get back at the people they bullied in high school.