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Colin Kaepernick Calls for Eliminating Police and Prisons

Don’t worry. We’ll still have prisons. They’ll just be reserved for people who point guns at Black Lives Matter rioters breaking into their homes or drivers who pass over a BLM mural in the road.

Despite virtually universal opposition, black nationalists are going all-in on getting rid of the police.

Leading the way is Colin Kaepernick. His Medium essay is big on the arm-waving about racism, but like most examples of the genre, short on explaining what he wants to do and what would replace it. There’s just two paragraphs that touch on what this post-police criminal utopia would look like.

Demands to defund the police and prisons are one of the ways to first realize the goals of investing in people and divesting from punishment and, in time, progress to the complete abolition of the carceral state, including police and policing.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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