O22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality
Since 2020, over 7,000 people across the United States have been killed by police, and every year is more deadly than the last.
The mass rebellion in response to the public execution of George Floyd, which shook the system to its core, was strangled, pulled, and led into the ground by politicians and opportunists.
Since then, a few killer cops have faced charges, trial, and prison time, but most of these murderers with a badge get away with their crimes. The police keep serving and protecting white supremacy and capitalism, and in that role, they are sanctioned to brutalize and kill.
In 2024, police in the US killed 1,375 people, the highest number ever recorded.
The police respond to people in a mental health crisis with taser-guns and bullets. They prey on Black, Latino, Indigenous, and proletarian youth, stalking them in squad cars, brutalizing them and throwing them into the prison pipeline, or just shoot them dead. In response to rising homelessness, homeless people are being criminalized, with police carrying out brutal raids on encampments. Despite the tough talk about Trump’s immigration policies from liberal and progressive politicians, the police have assisted in the kidnapping of thousands of people by ICE agents, brutally beating, shooting, and arresting protesters in the process.
And there is no serious movement in this country to stop this. The protest movement in response to police brutality has been derailed time and time again by politicians promising reforms and grifters using the movement for their personal gain, and without intervention, the same thing will likely happen to the current spontaneous uprisings against ICE.
Justice Department investigations, legislation, police review boards, and other reforms cannot end police brutality because it’s baked into the government on all levels and the entire system. It’s a fundamental tool, along with mass incarceration, to keep oppressed people controlled and subjugated.
Families Demanding Justice and Dare to Struggle are working to rebuild the movement against police brutality and for justice for Black and other oppressed people on solid foundations by getting people organized for the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality on October 22 (O22).
The movement we are seeking to build puts families and loved ones of the victims of police murder at the forefront, reviving a powerful weapon against police brutality.
We will unite all who can be united in this struggle, regardless of identity. And we will reject begging for reforms from politicians in favor of mass action.
We will be going to neighborhoods under the gun of police brutality throughout the summer and fall to mobilize youth and those who have the courage to stand up and speak for themselves and their communities. We will unite families and loved ones of victims of police murder from around the country to join in and take a leading role in the O22 National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality.
Join us October 22 to demand:
NO MORE MURDERS & BRUTALITY BY THE POLICE!
SEND KILLER COPS TO PRISON!
END THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK, LATINO, & INDIGENOUS YOUTH!
END THE CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS & MENTAL ILLNESS!
NO MORE MILITARIZED POLICE REPRESSION OF PROTEST!
STOP THE ICE KIDNAPPINGS OF IMMIGRANTS!
If you want to help rebuild a real fighting movement against police brutality, but you aren’t near a Dare to Struggle chapter, fill out this form and we’ll hit you up.
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