Unisex: soft black print on an even softer heathered gray shirt, soft black print on a white shirt. Women fit: soft white print on a black Image may be NSFW.
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shirt.
So, we printed up a new design. I was going to talk about all the phrases that ‘ACAB’ could stand for (all cats are beautiful, all caterpillars are butterflies, all cookies are bueno, all cops are bastards, etc) but I am just going to leave you with a single story about police murdering and brutalizing a community. Keep in mind, this happens everyday, in neighborhoods all over the world.
“In april 2001, when police officer Stephen Roach killed Timothy Thomas, Cincinnati served as the stage for a classic American drama. Thomas, an unarmed teenager wanted for several misdemeanor warrants, was the fifteenth Black man the Cincinnati police had killed in six years.! A few days later, protesters led by the victim’s mother occupied City Hall for three hours. When they were forced out, the crowd marched to the police station, growing as it went. At the police station, the demonstration esca lated. Members of the crowd hit the cops with rocks and bottles, shattered the station’s glass entryway, and removed the American flag Image may be NSFW.
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outside. When the police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, the disorder spread.2 For three nights, hundreds of people, mostly young Black men, participated in looting and vandalism.3 The rioting mostly consisted of window-breaking and sporadic attacks on White people, though dumpster fires became so com mon that the fire department stopped responding to them.4 The fight was by no means one-sided. The police made 760 arrests and injured an unknown number of people.
In what was perhaps the most disgraceful episode of the entire affair, police fired seven less-lethal “beanbags” at a crowd gathered for Thomas’s funeral service. Four people were hit, including two children. One victim, Christine Jones, was hospitalized with a fractured rib, bruised lung, and injured spleen. She described the incident: “It was like a drive-by shooting. All of a sudden, out of the blue, several police cars screeched to a halt at [the] intersection, jumped out of cars and just immediately started shooting people with the shotguns. No warning. No nothing.” - Kristian Williams – (Our Enemies in Blue)
