I'm highly dissatisfied with the job Phoenix PD did this summer handling the BLM demonstrations. Police don't need more toys and more equipment, they need to be required to de-escalate or at the very least NOT escalate situations. The violence against Black and brown community members is appalling. The targeted arrests and harassment of organizers is an absolute goon tactic. We need to END political prosecutions and police abuse of power in Phoenix.
PPD is more of a risk to the community in their reckless spreading of COVID than the people arrested for things they could easily be cited for and released. Stop making unnecessary arrests and further exposing more people to COVID needlessly. This is NONSENSE City Council.
Police have wasted over $12M in taxpayer dollars by saturating peaceful marches with expensive equipment and hundreds of extra officers. This is NONSENSE City Council!
PPD has a long history of targeting and abusing people based on their political beliefs. They surveil and target Black and brown activists, hoping to silence them. Phoenix police go out of their way with violent tactics to harm and oppress people demanding justice. They use fear and intimidation no person should face. Stop silencing people & start listening. This is NONSENSE City Council!
Targeting and arresting protesters, especially during a pandemic sends a chilling reminder to all of us that public servants aren't serving the public.
We demand that you address the country's most violent police force in a meaningful way, the more you allow their violence to go unaddressed the more they escalate and target activists in order to stifle their voices. The harm that has come to them is on your hands you're sitting on.
Shame on PHX PD for trying to take up space by playing the victim of the protests. National News have reported on their racist and violent history. BIPOC are fighting for their lives. This agenda report is ASININE. For ex: The statement on dehydration and heat exhaustion did not only happen to police. Protestors also suffered. The unsheltered suffered. Police lives are not superior. Damaged property is not superior over human life. City council, this complicit behavior must stop.
The city should be supporting the community with COVID relief and releasing people from jails and detention to prevent further suffering. instead Phoenix is attempting to chill our first amendment rights with trumped up charges and unquestioning loyalty to the lucrative prison industry.
PPD has a long history of targeting and abusing people based on their political beliefs. They surveil and target Black and brown activists, hoping to silence them. Phoenix police go out of their way with violent tactics to harm and oppress people demanding justice. This is NONSENSE City Council!
I support the Police & people need to understand how to peacefully protest. They acted crazed villians, destroying property, assaulting police, fires, vandalism. The national guard should have been brought in.They were arrested because they broke the law! Why don't you people who keep committing crime's stop it. Why don't you join the Police academy! Why don't you go pick up trash & help seniors. Selfish self centered criminals. Let the Police do their jobs. Mayor/council, talk to police!
Police are wasting taxpayer money on overtime and political prosecution. Resources that should be protecting our communities as we deal with COVID-19 are instead used to quell any form of dissent through PPD's coordination with agencies like the attorney's office. I don't want any part of my paycheck going toward some cop's overtime fund as they harass protestors. This whole sickening farce underscores exactly why people protest.
The people of phoenix protested the brutal killings of black and brown Arizonans for months. They sweated, fainted, suffered arrests and beatings to have their voice heard on the matter of state sanctioned murder. And this is city council's response?
If you really hate spending so much on police during protests, listen to us and DEFUND THEM.
What is the point of a council that doesn't listen to public outcry?
Buck up and address the brutality of your police force honestly.
The Phoenix police act like an occupying force in the community m. Throughout the summer and into the fall, we have watched then terrorize fellow Americans, treating them with hostility and prejudice as they exercised their first amendment rights. The actions of Phoenix police in the past years has been despicable, but watching them tear gas and beat fellow Phoenicians for months shows us just how gross and ubiquitous these abuses of power are.
Here is a protest update for you: the protests are against police brutality. If you want to stop the protests, stop police brutality. And yes, that means DEFUNDING police. Our tax dollars do not need to go to this institution. The statistics of violence by PPD do not lie.
Police agreed to cite and release people at the beginning of the pandemic. Despite that, PPD has made hundreds of arrests; one night over 200 people were arrested for marching against police violence. This targeting of Black and brown community members exercising their first amendment rights has recklessly endangered their health and the health of their communities. What will you do to prevent PPD from spreading COVID-19 and harming Black and brown communities?
The actions taken by the PPD during a pandemic should terrify us all. The PPD was willing to unnecessarily incarcerate protestors and endanger countless lives in order to silence their political opposition. If it wasn't clear to you before, it should be now: the PPD and city govt are fine with you and your loved ones dying (either by their hands or from COVID) in order to retain their power and payouts. Fix the reasons for the protests in the first place. Be accountable to the people of Phoenix.
The Phoenix PD and law enforcement agencies such as the Maricopa County Attorney's Office have been working together to politically target, silence, and jail our community, in a desperate attempt at political gain. It's completely transparent that this is an abuse of power and we can't have City Council stand by and let you waste another $12 million in taxpayer dollars on expensive equipment and extra officers to do harm and oppress people demanding justice!
The protests aren’t the problem. We don’t need a ‘protest update.’ We need an END to PPD violence and their silencing of first amendment demonstrators. We need an update on what is being done to reduce the harm and power the Phoenix Police Department abuses to attack, arrest, and kill our community. That is what the community needs. We are asking council members to stop supporting one of the most violent forces in the nation and instead stand in solidarity with the people.
The protests were in direct response to the unchecked police brutality and the anti-Black racism within our government that continues to kill, harass, and dehumanize citizens. You don't have a protest problem, you have a corruption problem.
Tax payers already paid this dept....no need to pay it again. I have seen PPD and other local departments used as enforcers for one political benefit against the other.
Local law enforcement have been oppressive and in direct violation of our first amendment rights. Black Lives Matter protestors shouldn’t be targets for intimidation tactics. All of these arrests have been absolutely ridiculous.
I'm highly dissatisfied with the job Phoenix PD did this summer handling the BLM demonstrations. Police don't need more toys and more equipment, they need to be required to de-escalate or at the very least NOT escalate situations. The violence against Black and brown community members is appalling. The targeted arrests and harassment of organizers is an absolute goon tactic. We need to END political prosecutions and police abuse of power in Phoenix.
PPD is more of a risk to the community in their reckless spreading of COVID than the people arrested for things they could easily be cited for and released. Stop making unnecessary arrests and further exposing more people to COVID needlessly. This is NONSENSE City Council.
Police have wasted over $12M in taxpayer dollars by saturating peaceful marches with expensive equipment and hundreds of extra officers. This is NONSENSE City Council!
PPD has a long history of targeting and abusing people based on their political beliefs. They surveil and target Black and brown activists, hoping to silence them. Phoenix police go out of their way with violent tactics to harm and oppress people demanding justice. They use fear and intimidation no person should face. Stop silencing people & start listening. This is NONSENSE City Council!
Targeting and arresting protesters, especially during a pandemic sends a chilling reminder to all of us that public servants aren't serving the public.
We demand that you address the country's most violent police force in a meaningful way, the more you allow their violence to go unaddressed the more they escalate and target activists in order to stifle their voices. The harm that has come to them is on your hands you're sitting on.
Shame on PHX PD for trying to take up space by playing the victim of the protests. National News have reported on their racist and violent history. BIPOC are fighting for their lives. This agenda report is ASININE. For ex: The statement on dehydration and heat exhaustion did not only happen to police. Protestors also suffered. The unsheltered suffered. Police lives are not superior. Damaged property is not superior over human life. City council, this complicit behavior must stop.
The city should be supporting the community with COVID relief and releasing people from jails and detention to prevent further suffering. instead Phoenix is attempting to chill our first amendment rights with trumped up charges and unquestioning loyalty to the lucrative prison industry.
PPD has a long history of targeting and abusing people based on their political beliefs. They surveil and target Black and brown activists, hoping to silence them. Phoenix police go out of their way with violent tactics to harm and oppress people demanding justice. This is NONSENSE City Council!
I support the Police & people need to understand how to peacefully protest. They acted crazed villians, destroying property, assaulting police, fires, vandalism. The national guard should have been brought in.They were arrested because they broke the law! Why don't you people who keep committing crime's stop it. Why don't you join the Police academy! Why don't you go pick up trash & help seniors. Selfish self centered criminals. Let the Police do their jobs. Mayor/council, talk to police!
Police are wasting taxpayer money on overtime and political prosecution. Resources that should be protecting our communities as we deal with COVID-19 are instead used to quell any form of dissent through PPD's coordination with agencies like the attorney's office. I don't want any part of my paycheck going toward some cop's overtime fund as they harass protestors. This whole sickening farce underscores exactly why people protest.
The people of phoenix protested the brutal killings of black and brown Arizonans for months. They sweated, fainted, suffered arrests and beatings to have their voice heard on the matter of state sanctioned murder. And this is city council's response?
If you really hate spending so much on police during protests, listen to us and DEFUND THEM.
What is the point of a council that doesn't listen to public outcry?
Buck up and address the brutality of your police force honestly.
The Phoenix police act like an occupying force in the community m. Throughout the summer and into the fall, we have watched then terrorize fellow Americans, treating them with hostility and prejudice as they exercised their first amendment rights. The actions of Phoenix police in the past years has been despicable, but watching them tear gas and beat fellow Phoenicians for months shows us just how gross and ubiquitous these abuses of power are.
Here is a protest update for you: the protests are against police brutality. If you want to stop the protests, stop police brutality. And yes, that means DEFUNDING police. Our tax dollars do not need to go to this institution. The statistics of violence by PPD do not lie.
Police agreed to cite and release people at the beginning of the pandemic. Despite that, PPD has made hundreds of arrests; one night over 200 people were arrested for marching against police violence. This targeting of Black and brown community members exercising their first amendment rights has recklessly endangered their health and the health of their communities. What will you do to prevent PPD from spreading COVID-19 and harming Black and brown communities?
The actions taken by the PPD during a pandemic should terrify us all. The PPD was willing to unnecessarily incarcerate protestors and endanger countless lives in order to silence their political opposition. If it wasn't clear to you before, it should be now: the PPD and city govt are fine with you and your loved ones dying (either by their hands or from COVID) in order to retain their power and payouts. Fix the reasons for the protests in the first place. Be accountable to the people of Phoenix.
The Phoenix PD and law enforcement agencies such as the Maricopa County Attorney's Office have been working together to politically target, silence, and jail our community, in a desperate attempt at political gain. It's completely transparent that this is an abuse of power and we can't have City Council stand by and let you waste another $12 million in taxpayer dollars on expensive equipment and extra officers to do harm and oppress people demanding justice!
The protests aren’t the problem. We don’t need a ‘protest update.’ We need an END to PPD violence and their silencing of first amendment demonstrators. We need an update on what is being done to reduce the harm and power the Phoenix Police Department abuses to attack, arrest, and kill our community. That is what the community needs. We are asking council members to stop supporting one of the most violent forces in the nation and instead stand in solidarity with the people.
The protests were in direct response to the unchecked police brutality and the anti-Black racism within our government that continues to kill, harass, and dehumanize citizens. You don't have a protest problem, you have a corruption problem.
Tax payers already paid this dept....no need to pay it again. I have seen PPD and other local departments used as enforcers for one political benefit against the other.
Local law enforcement have been oppressive and in direct violation of our first amendment rights. Black Lives Matter protestors shouldn’t be targets for intimidation tactics. All of these arrests have been absolutely ridiculous.