up...up...up... the nypd

paulo freire's theories about oppressive systems illuminates this nyc subway ad:

"...the oppressed, striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or 'sub-oppressors.' the very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. their ideal is to be men, but for them, to be men is to be oppressors...the one pole aspires not to liberation, but to identification with its opposite pole.... in the example [of slavery] the overseer must be as tough as the owner--and more so." (freire, paulo. pedagogy of the oppressed, 1970.)

our police system is directly founded on the overseer and slave hunter systems, which relied on 'free' blacks, poor whites and desperate native americans to control the slave population, out of fear of being slaves themselves, or out of compliance to the slave masters' ideology.

you can "rise further" if you keep your fellow people down.

same shit today in nyc.

police murder anthony roman on 163rd st.

a few days ago in washington heights, nyc, a 16 year old named Anthony Roman was murdered by a undercover cop (shot three times)
but we didnt hear shit about it on the news
an article in the daily news mentioned the shooting, but said that roman's wounds were not life threatening (when he is in fact dead). they also reported that roman tried to rob the undercover cop at gunpoint, after selling him drugs, so the police shot him in self defense...

another story:
the decoy arranged to buy drugs from roman in an attempt to lock him up. roman thought he was a cop, so he sold him crushed alcasetlzer instead of cocaine, but the decoy chased him down the block anyway. roman had his gun on him, so they used it as evidence against him, to justify the murder.

THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION! THIS IS NOT JUSTICE!


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