As the #BlackLivesMatter movement gained traction in the media, it was only natural that others with liberal grievances would attach themselves and march alongside. One such group was Disarm NYPD, whose aim remains “the immediate disarming of the NYPD” and the transfer of power from government to community councils “to make the police obsolete.”
Today, Chicago activists and anarchists joined forces to make their contribution to the #NationalDayOfProtest with a get-together they called the “I Shocked the Sheriff Counter-Conference against the International Association of Chiefs of Police” — #StopTheCops for short.
So #Stopthecops is a Chicago thing. Good to know.
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) October 24, 2015
.@LiftedVoices stands with @BYP_100. #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/spsJvM501B
— Kelly Hayes (@MsKellyMHayes) October 24, 2015
The police are presented with a letter from teen Black organizers explaining why they are not welcome. #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/gr71MlciNp
— Kelly Hayes (@MsKellyMHayes) October 24, 2015
Anyone who scoffed at the idea that the taking down of the Confederate flag at the State House in South Carolina wouldn’t eventually extend to the American flag are welcome to watch this clown struggle to pull down this symbol of global terrorism.
Activist takes down American flag which represents the leading terror state: USA. #StopTheCops #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/5L35WYLr7V
— Paul Gottinger (@PaulGottinger) October 24, 2015
Activist bringing down American flag in front of Police conference in Chicago. #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/nFnkh2Ddtr
— Paul Gottinger (@PaulGottinger) October 24, 2015
Palestine and LGBT flags at Chicago's #StopTheCops protest led by @BYP_100 pic.twitter.com/jYqDeumkpx
— Günay Hilal Aygün (@MyRedSelf) October 24, 2015
https://twitter.com/ShameyKassim/status/658103888134860801
Marchers took over the streets, while protesters with arms chained together inside tubes or pipes blocked intersections. (The “What Does This Prove?” award still goes to the protesters in Boston who managed to chain their arms together inside 1,200 lb. barrels.)
"CPD loves to shoot first! CPD loves to shoot first!" #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/wRcJlXbHY4
— Chicago Rising (@ChicagoRising) October 24, 2015
"They left us dead! & we ain't s'posed to be mad?" #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/l4jLQInDBa
— Chicago Rising (@ChicagoRising) October 24, 2015
A support person buttons up the shirt of someone standing up for justice. #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/mcL6UZ4OJf
— Chicago Rising (@ChicagoRising) October 24, 2015
Or, more accurately, sitting down for his own selfish reasons.
26th and Martin Luther King Dr #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/4tWMTaofIH
— Pidgeon (@Pidgejen) October 24, 2015
Police use hand saws to unlink protestors. #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/pEZBXDl5KU
— Nakisha Hobbs (@VLA_Principal) October 24, 2015
#StopTheCops because they need to be stopped. POC like living on this Earth as much as white people do.
— Nolan the AngryNegro (@NolanHack) October 25, 2015
#StopTheCops because they have proven that they will not stop themselves from terrorizing Black, Brown, and poor white communities.
— Matty (@MattyBRocker) October 25, 2015
White folks stole everything that wasn't nailed down & then made stealing illegal. #StopTheCops #StopCopsStopRacism
— TruthBeTold (@Big6domino) October 25, 2015
If today was the first step, there must be a second if the ultimate goal is to make the police obsolete.
#StopTheCops Fine. Stop calling them then
— greg williams (@gwilliams1967) October 25, 2015
#StopTheCops
OK by me. We'll all watch you social rejects destroy each other— greg williams (@gwilliams1967) October 25, 2015
#StopTheCops ? Sure. Let's immediately remove them from all your neighborhoods right now, let y'all sort yourselves out.
— Wife With A Purpose (@apurposefulwife) October 25, 2015
Sorry. When you made it racial and burned down your own town. You blew it. Try local economics. build something beneficial #StopTheCops
— 3ill crowley III (@billcrowley3rd) October 25, 2015
#StopTheCops ? Stop yourself. https://t.co/oYTftGPprQ
— 3ill crowley III (@billcrowley3rd) October 25, 2015