RSB Statement on Torture of Refugees in North Rhein-Westphalia
As long as there are these camps, and people are not regarded as people, these kinds of crimes will continue to be committed.
As long as there are these camps, and people are not regarded as people, these kinds of crimes will continue to be committed.
There really is no choice but to organize a politics that is consciously resistant to the mass Black incarceration state. And it must be done in a confrontation with the coercive powers of the state. That is, the police.
“I wasn’t really planning on getting arrested that day. When I heard there was cutting on the north end, I went up after the cops had already cordoned off the area. I didn’t really think about it much, but somebody handed me a U-lock, and I ran across the line.”
When you’re a target of the police, you don’t want to show up routinely anywhere. You don’t want to go to the hospital when you’ve been injured or when your baby is born. You don’t want to go to your mother’s house on Christmas. Who knows who will be there to take you into custody?
At least 16,000 people have been arrested, more than 2,500 killed and 17,000 wounded in the government crackdown since the ousting of Morsi. Down with the fascist military regime! Freedom for all the detainees!
It might be worth pointing out that it is unrealistic to think that we can catch every crime before it happens. Right? There was a movie about that.
The place and function of the police is undecidable and must remain undecidable, because if it were really absorbed in the judicial power, police could no longer exist.
It’s a moment I seize and make fundamentally mine, deep inside where no guard, no cop, no one else whose intention is to abuse their power, should ever be allowed to lay neither hand nor eye.
I feel I owe an explanation especially to the families of those who were killed during Gezi. No one should talk of justice until the killers and those responsible for the killings are punished.