If you think a child is shoplifting, do you use a fucking taser on them as your first response ? Is there no other alternative ? Is some store's property more important than the health and well being of a child ? In the capitalist system, it would seem that it is. This shit has to go.
Now They’re Tasing 11-Year-Olds!
Now They’re Tasing 11-Year-Olds!
This System Can’t Be Reformed—It Must Be OVERTHROWN!
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Can you believe this shit? Now this fucking system is tasing 11-year-olds!!
Monday night, Aug. 6, an off-duty cop working security at a Kroger supermarket in Cincinnati Ohio came up on an young girl he thought might be shoplifting. She was 11 years old, in fifth grade, stood 4’11”, weighed 90 pounds, and had a backpack. And yeah, she was Black.
When the pig approached her, she ignored him and moved away. So he tased her. In the back! 50,000 fucking volts for an 11-year-old!!
Now she’s been charged with “theft” and “obstruction of justice.”
This outrageous attack on an 11-year-old has sparked uproar in Cincinnati. The chief pig claims to be very concerned and is talking about investigations and policy changes.
This is bullshit! What does this barbaric attack say about this whole system?
First, why is ANY 11-year-old getting tased? And this wasn’t some “rogue cop”—official policy allows pigs to tase anyone between 7 and 70!
Second, even if she did take food with the intent not to pay—which this pig had no real way of knowing before he tased her—what kind of a system drives children to steal food?!?!
What kind of system? A system that has no right to exist, that cannot be reformed, and needs to be overthrown!
