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
— Puff the Magic Hater (@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
— Puff the Magic Hater (@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.
https://twitter.com/PaulGottinger/status/658002509026455553
https://twitter.com/PaulGottinger/status/658001779578269697
Palestine and LGBT flags at Chicago's #StopTheCops protest led by @BYP_100 pic.twitter.com/jYqDeumkpx
— G. Hilal Stellmach (@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
— #EndIntersexSurgery (@Pidgejen) October 24, 2015
Police use hand saws to unlink protestors. #StopTheCops pic.twitter.com/pEZBXDl5KU
— La Shawn K Ford for Mayor (@FordForChi19) October 24, 2015
#StopTheCops because they need to be stopped. POC like living on this Earth as much as white people do.
— #SaveKevinCooper (@NolanHack) October 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/MattyBRocker/status/658105330971230208
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.
https://twitter.com/gwilliams1967/status/658079328849129472
https://twitter.com/gwilliams1967/status/658079970699247616
https://twitter.com/apurposefulwife/status/658106107445952512
https://twitter.com/billcrowley3rd/status/658104195661307904
https://twitter.com/billcrowley3rd/status/658107752225599489
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