Reblogged from Black Orchid Collective:
One of the six people bashed and arrested last Saturday night at Pride during the Queers Fucking Queers street dance party has written about her experiences that night. For updates on the arrestees, please follow the Grand Legion of Incendiary and Tenacious Unicorn Revolutionaries (GLTUR) on the web, Facebook, and twitter. For more background, please read jomo206's post "
This is just one of the things that makes me feel like I can't be on my own neighborhood after dark. I'm disabled and trans, and have been told to "move along" by cops before when hanging out at night on Pike/Pine. Part of me thinks it's because more wealthy white straight people are moving into the neighborhood.
But it really sucks feeling like I have to "get out" of my own neighborhood by a certain time each night. And I'm getting tired of feeling like I should just accept it and move on. This idea that if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you shouldn't have to fear the cops is another way of keeping people from speaking up when they know something isn't right. The thing is, people want to believe that the police would never treat them like that. But they will if they can figure out how to.
Police don't need an excuse, and as things get worse out here, they need less and less of one every day.
