DC – We’re finally a state
A POLICE STATE
WHAT * THE * FUCK!
Via Washington City Paper via Washington Examiner
D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.
Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.
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on the up side, we can use this as a teachable moment. now the kids will learn first hand where the word ghetto came from!! throw up a few barbed wire fences and we are good to go for a lesson in nazi containment techniques.
any members of the DC chapter of Critical Resistance out there?? Just wondering if they are planning a response to this and what the chapter is up to genearlly..
http://www.criticalresistance.org
for real 4d?
another sad day in the district. between this and the semi-automatic assault weapons plan, it makes you wonder what happened to “community policing”.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100648.html
“No experience in my life has had more of an impact on doing my job than going to Israel,” said D.C. police Cmdr. Cathy Lanier, who heads the District’s special operations division and oversees the bomb squad and the emergency response team.”
Appointing a chief of police whose expertise was homeland security and counterterrorism was stupid.
8 people were killed this weekend but DC isn’t Israel and treating us like we’re Palestinians isn’t a good way to reduce crime.
DC Critical Resistance faded away awhile back, but some folks are trying to get it restarted- it’s shit like this that makes it so important. Between the assault weapons, searches of people’s homes, killing 14-year old kids, and now this, seems like everyday the police come up with new ways to terrorize DC, while keeping up with all the old ones.
Any thoughts on what to do to fight it? This type of action by the police doesn’t make anyone safer.
People are sleeping. Go on high-fiving Team Fenty. While our mayor runs marathons, our neighborhoods are stolen from us. Help me overstand. DC needs a real organizing vehicle, like yesterday. Posers need not apply.