Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #abolishpolice, aggregated by home.social.
⚖️ French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future : A Report
Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the
https://crimethinc.com/2026/10/06/french-youth-fight-against-a-bleak-future
Queer joy is resistance.
🏳️🌈 Democrat Annie Andrews Responded to Trump’s T-Slur Tirade by Calling Trans Women “Biological Men”
https://www.them.us/politics/annie-andrews-south-carolina-democrat
🕊️ After October 7, I learned that movements need grief spaces
This article After October 7, I learned that movements need grief spaces was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/10/collective-grief-circles-movements-october-7/
Document everything.
🇵🇸 After October 7, I learned that movements need grief spaces
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/10/collective-grief-circles-movements-october-7/
🏳️⚧️ Police discover possible motive in shocking queer bar double murder-suicide
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/police-disover-possible-motive-in-shocking-queer-bar-double/ #AbolishPolice #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy
"Some activists criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani whose police department detained protesters despite his"
🕊️ Over 100 arrested outside U.N. amid mass protest of Netanyahu’s speech
https://prismreports.org/2026/09/28/netanyahu-un-protest-arrests-mamdani/
🏳️⚧️ Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Last Ditch Finally Responds to Its Viral Moment
Last Ditch, the western Massachusetts lesbian bar that was profiled in a viral Boston Globe article after announcing
🇵🇸 Hannah Einbinder and Other LGBTQ+ Celebrities Arrested at Anti-Netanyahu Protest
This story originally appeared on Out.Hacks star Hannah Einbinder was arrested today by the NYPD alongside other LGBTQ+
Thinking about Foucault's discussion of public punishment in Discipline and Punish, and how he describes it as a theatrical showing of brutal power enacted on the criminal's body but designed to be an example of the state's absolute authority over those of us watching.
And thinking about shows like To Catch a Predator, and Cops, and Jailbirds.
And thinking about the way we share body cam and cctv footage of arrests and of police brutality, especially when it's enacted on Brown and Black bodies.
And thinking about the way ICE is very publicly dragging people out of their homes.
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Foucault #surveillance #surveillanceTech #panopticon #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition
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Facebook thread via NITV about Aboriginal women in prisons being shackled while they give birth.
Random man's comment:
It wouldn't be a problem if she didn't commit crime in the first place
His profile pic:
AI generated "I SUPPORT BEN ROBERTS-SMITH" badge
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You fucking dumb dog
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #Australia #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #BenRobertSmith #Men #ReplyGuys
"The Advanced Security Training Institute had instructors with a history in Israeli public relations run workshops for U.S."
🕊️ Fighting terror is a ‘propaganda war,’ American police learned in Israel
https://prismreports.org/2026/09/23/asti-police-training-propaganda/
"A representative for actress Hayden Panettiere is contradicting claims put out by TMZ that the actress died after"
🏳️🌈 Hayden Panettiere’s Rep Calls Report About Fentanyl-Laced Oxycodone “Unverified Hearsay”
https://www.them.us/entertainment/celebrity/hayden-panettiere-death-hearsay
🍉📚 JOURNÉE DE LANCEMENT du livre " Nous détruirons les prisons coloniales ! " Palestine et abolitionnisme pénal dirigé par Gwenola Ricordeau .
🔸️Le samedi 3 octobre à partir de 15h et jusqu'à 20h à la salle des syndicats à Brest.
#rentreelitteraire2026 #editionindependante #abolishpolice
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We exist. We persist.
🏳️🌈 Sophie Lee, a Black Trans Woman and Ballroom Mother, Killed in Baltimore: “She Was Loved. She Mattered”
https://www.them.us/news/sophie-lee-baltimore-trans-woman
"This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A vigil for two gay men killed in a hate crime outside an Arizona gay"
💜 A Gunman Targeted Tucson’s LGBTQ+ Community. A Thousand Arizonans Answered With Love
https://www.them.us/news/arizona-vigil-tucson-hate-crime
🚨 Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.
https://www.404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-protesters/
⚖️ Two Men Charged Over Sexual Assault of Trans Woman on UW-Madison Campus
This story describes charges of violence and sexual assault against a transgender woman.
I will watch this, but if it doesn't address racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and the militarization (and elevation to impunity) of policing in the U.S., then it's bullshit.
oh, and also: if you can afford it, become a regular donor to your local PBS station--no matter how little you can give, it adds up.
#USPolitics #AbolishPolice #ACAB #Racism #PrisonPipeline #FundPBS
🏳️🌈 Gunman Kills 2 At Arizona Gay Bar With Other LGBTQ+ Venues On Apparent Hit List
This story appeared originally on Advocate.
💜 Suspect in “heinous” double murder-suicide outside gay bar was carrying a list of LGBTQ+ businesses
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/suspect-in-heinous-double-outside-gay-bar-was-carrying-a-list-of-lgbtq-businesses/ #AbolishPolice #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerJoy
Protect trans people. Full stop.
🏳️🌈 Gunman kills 2 at Arizona gay bar with other LGBTQ+ venues on apparent hit list
https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/tuscon-hate-crime-bar-killing
🏳️⚧️ Trump’s HHS Built a Survey Linking Trans Acceptance to Violence. Its Authors Undercut the Conclusions
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration decided that support for transgender people
https://www.them.us/politics/hhs-transgender-false-report-violence
#Mamdani is fighting with teachers unions...cuz he says there isn't any money
This is as far left as the USA will let you go
"This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A judge in Wyoming will soon decide whether the state’s"
🚨 Wyoming Lets People Stand Their Ground. A Judge Will Decide If That Law Extends to This Transgender Woman
https://www.them.us/news/rihanna-kelver-wyoming-self-defense
⚖️ Beyond the Wire: stopping violence without police
Demonstrators march down the middle of street as they protest the death Freddie Gray, an African American man who died
https://therealnews.com/beyond-the-wire-stopping-violence-without-police
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/
«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/
«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/
«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/
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Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]
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PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
"People who thought they were attending a WNBA game in Chicago on Sunday evening were also treated to a three-ring"
⚖️ Enes Kanter Freedom’s Desperate Attempt at Transphobic Trolling Gets Him Ejected From WNBA Game
https://www.them.us/news/enes-kanter-freedom-wnba-protest
🇵🇸 Israel murders children, police in Gaza
Israeli soldiers detain and then mark Palestinians in occupied West Bank with numbers on their faces and arms.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-murders-children-police-gaza
Over 50 cops
have used the flock surveillance
"cameras"
to stalk/harass women
(these are just the cases
that we know about
with the fucks who got caught
doing it).
So yeah...fuck that shit.
& fuck every cop.
We don't trust any of you fucks.
🚨 Ruby Rose Says Hayden Panettiere "Sobbed" Over Her Mother's "Cruelty" Before Dying
This story originally appeared on Out.Actor Ruby Rose, who said she considered Hayden Panettiere "my protector" and "my
https://www.them.us/entertainment/celebrity/ruby-rose-hayden-panettiere
🚨 Kansas Trans Guys Are Using Women’s Bathrooms, as Legally Required, as a Form of Protest
https://www.them.us/politics/kansas-trans-guy-bathroom-ban #AbolishPolice #TransRights #LGBTQ
"An American cop went across the Mexican Border to murder his ex-wife's family and kidnap the son that a judge had banned him from seeing. He then actually DID kidnap his son...after killing the mother and the rest of the family."
"Jen-Chase Daniels, the co-owner of Atlanta lesbian bar My Sister’s Room, said she was arrested on Saturday night for"
🚨 Co-Owner of Atlanta Lesbian Bar Arrested After Patrons Were Heard “Projecting Their Voices”
https://www.them.us/news/lesbian-bar-noise-complaint
⚖️ Police Officer Allegedly Used Flock Cameras to Track Her Ex-Girlfriend’s Car Over 200 Times
A New Bedford, Massachusetts, police officer is under investigation after being accused of using a Flock Safety camera
"Hayden Panettiere, the actress who starred in beloved television shows such as Nashville and Heroes before joining the"
⚖️ Heroes and Scream Star Hayden Panettiere Dead at 36
https://www.them.us/entertainment/celebrity/hayden-panettiere-dead
🚨 First came the Flock cameras. Now local cops want autonomous drones.
A Skydio X10 drone lifts off from an automated launch station on the roof of a building in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
https://therealnews.com/first-came-the-flock-cameras-now-local-cops-want-autonomous-drones
⚖️ Juju Nadeau, Trans 21-Year-Old Killed in Maine, Remembered as “An Angel Sent Here to Make Things Better”
On the evening of August 5, Juju Nadeau was walking with friends along Back Cove Trail, a wooded path wedged between