Seattle learned the hard way that federal oversight via “consent decrees” mainly served to increase police budgets.
The people of Seattle deserve a city where Charleena Lyles and John T. Williams would still be with us today, where Black and Indigenous communities don’t have to live in fear of constant police harassment, and where these communities have everything they need to thrive, not just survive. That city will only be won through relentless organizing by the people most invested in that outcome, not by the intervention of a federal agency.
As cities including Columbus, Louisville, Memphis and Phoenix consider the potential impacts of federal intervention, we invite them to learn from Seattle’s experience and double down on local organizing. No one else is coming to save us. As June Jordan reminded us, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.We needed to raise $50,000 in new donations this month to protect Truthout’s honest, fearless journalism, but we’ve fallen dangerously behind and are at real risk of not making it.
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