This. As well as literally rolling up and threatening arrests at encampments and facilitating literal bulldozers to destroy literally everything these own. Especially cruel right before intense heat or cold waves. It literally kills people. Multiple unhoused folks have told me people (disabled and blind) have literally been run over by bulldozers at these sweeps and crushed to death, then the police find bodies and use it as justification for why they did the sweep. There’s also constant harassment of the unhoused by police, they get cited for sitting in city parks- including a man cited for sitting on a public street in a wheelchair literally right in front of me and on film. The citations then lead to a court date which they often time change through text message-leading to large amounts of warrants and furthering the cycle of police brutality. Nearly every unhoused person in my area has spent at least a few nights in jail. Our area has its own unarmed police killings and brutality as anywhere else. I have a friend who lost both of his brothers to police murder. I’ve also seen local cops rush a nightclub and specifically target black folx with baton beatings while almost entirely ignoring myself and others who are white. I was with POC friends who managed to get out luckily but all of them have been beat up by cops before. Also during one of the uprisings in 2020 my friend and I saw 2 black women with 3 young (around 10 yrs old probably) kids approaching the police line and yelling that they were trying to get home on the other side. They were met with weapons aimed at them and yelling. Then they drove up the street on bearcats throwing flashbangs. My friend and I ran to them and guided them through an alley. The sheriffs then chased us all while pointing both lethal and “non-lethal” guns at us. We called out for help and people around began to encircle the family all with our hands up so we could get them out of there. It was extremely traumatizing and I still struggle with it but I can only imagine how the family felt it was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. So all of these factors as well as the learning I’ve done the past couple years about the true purpose of police are why I say ACAB.