Genius-level thinking. After all, it’s not like Toronto has any crime or shootings…
On the same day that multiple people were hurt, and one person killed in a shooting in Toronto, and only days after an apparently intoxicated man smashed into a car killing a woman and her three young children, some total genius protesters are calling for the abolishment of the Toronto Police.
https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1274011931288928259
https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1274048862618112006
A little ways down from Toronto Police HQ, at College and Bay, a sit-in begins. “No justice, no peace, abolish the police,” they chant. pic.twitter.com/uF76pZv71w
— Laura Armstrong (@lauraarmy) June 19, 2020
LIVE: BLM protestors claim that black and brown Toronto Police officers are "gaslighting" them.
"We deserve to be angry," a protestor with a megaphone says, "we are choosing not to go because we want to protect each other from you."
READ: https://t.co/b1ONetlJjM#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/6vlxxQOyUH
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 19, 2020
LIVE: BLM protestors demand that Toronto Police "quit their f***ing jobs."
READ: https://t.co/b1ONetlJjM#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/NUqJd8chn5
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 19, 2020
LIVE: Toronto anti-racism protestors are calling for the defunding of the police.
READ: https://t.co/b1ONetlJjM#cdnpol #ontpol pic.twitter.com/nvkDJjQutG
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 19, 2020
People are painting ‘abolish the police’ at Toronto City Hall pic.twitter.com/XaM9uwrFcn
— WaveRoomTv© (@WaveroomTv) June 19, 2020
Of course, we know that this is crazy.
If the police were abolished, there would be a massive surge in crime, violence, suffering, and death, which would then result in the police coming back to protect a desperate population:
“Let’s do a little thought experiment:
The police are abolished.
People have nobody to call when there’s crime.
Crime surges.
In desperation, people form their own armed ‘community security’ groups.
Perhaps those groups would be called, oh, I don’t know, ‘police.'”
https://twitter.com/SpencerFernando/status/1274064909198745600
“They would need a central HQ in each neighbourhood.
Perhaps those could be called ‘precincts’.
We end up back where we started, only with a lot more death, crime, and suffering in between.
That’s why any push to abolish the police is insanity.”
https://twitter.com/SpencerFernando/status/1274064910071164929
Spencer Fernando
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