how about a protest update derrick?

When does the west Philadelphia autonomous zone get going? Are you gonna be the rapper/musician/warlord running the place?

Nothing he says will ever please the left, as you can tell by his silence, it's all about action with him, Trump is not all talk like the previous 4 idiots we had as president, this guy gets fluff done, even when his own party doesn't help him, and that's what I like him, talk is cheap.

Eyyy kahuna.

A local Committee Person put out a short documentary that I actually appear in 3 times. In one shot you see me sprint by a swat cop with an assault rifle. Another you see me run up a hill. And lastly you see me pulling my friend over a fence. It's just snippets but I'm in there.

Edit: YouTube format: https://m.youtube.com/...BQBQ&feature=youtu.be

All I see is philly PD kicking that ass with tear gas, and rubber bullets. I didnt see you, were you on your knees getting pepper sprayed in the highway?

Still dont see it theres like 100's of people running away from police. Its like where's waldo except its drunken red head ginger, instead of waldo. The time of the video?...KoH go back to your lot lizards.

It was around 4pm. Like maybe 4:30. The peaceful protests were intentionally ending before the 6pm curfew at this time and I think we started marching around 2:30.

Also I'm a drunken blonde with a backpack full of medical supplies. I know I'm hard to find but just look for a 90 lb. Fabio.

I'm not easy to find. But it's easy to find me from my perspective because I know where exactly I was. I'm wearing a mask and a hat so I'd be hard af to make out.

It was around 4pm. Like maybe 4:30. The peaceful protests were intentionally ending before the 6pm curfew at this time and I think we started marching around 2:30.

Also I'm a drunken blonde with a backpack full of medical supplies. I know I'm hard to find but just look for a 90 lb. Fabio.

I'm not easy to find. But it's easy to find me from my perspective because I know where exactly I was. I'm wearing a mask and a hat so I'd be hard af to make out.

No I meant the time frame in the video where you appeared to be.

Stop voting for the same fluff that makes empty promises every four years, get involved in local elections, something called democracy....you should practice that, your cities have been blue strongholds for decades, just because you are a Democrat doesn't mean your candidate cares about what you want, elect better people, identity politics is killing us.

Do you understand what civil disobedience is? Like, you understand it was illegal for Rosa Parks to sit in the whites only section, correct?

Could she be arrested for it, absolutely. Should she be beaten and attacked for it? Should the police pass her judgement and punishment, not a court of law? I'd think not. That's not how our democracy works.

Do you understand what civil disobedience is? Like, you understand it was illegal for Rosa Parks to sit in the whites only section, correct?

Could she be arrested for it, absolutely. Should she be beaten and attacked for it? Should the police pass her judgement and punishment, not a court of law? I'd think not. That's not how our democracy works.

Sometimes in civil disobedience you can get in trouble for breaking the law. But it's not up to the police to decide my punishment.

Yes. When you hold up commerce it gets your local governments attention. Usually. It's a pretty proactive way to get local officials to listen in my experience.

Yeah. But passing judgement and punishment is not. Last I checked their job is to cite and arrest people for breaking the law, and then for the judicial branch to give them a fair trial and decide their punishment. Last I checked anyways. Maybe I'm crazy and these dudes are actually supposed to choke people to death over a 20 dollar bill. That's not the way I read the laws of the land tho.

Blue stronghold drama SMH.

You made your bed, good night :-)


My point is you did it to yourself and now you're throwing a fit over it 🤷

Someday you'll understand that these are the moments that change history. And we are getting change on a local and federal level about it. Were fluffing about it because it is overkill and brutality for a group of people surrendering to police to be surrounded and gassed. Same as Waco. You have to stand up and fight for change and the messaging here is literally that this level of police brutality should not and can not be accepted.

I donno when the right fell in love with these fluffers but maybe I'm just confused because I went to school with Timothy McVeigh's family. What a difference a decade makes.

Local level elections are IMO far more important than General elections, yet people dismiss them as non important, then cry about government incompetence 🤷

Lol. Glad hawk has tabs on me. I might disappear entirely otherwise. A lot of people believe what they say, but won't act on it. That's likely how we reached this moment.

I did quit playing a couple weeks before I began organizing, getting gassed/shot by police with children in my arms (you should see the bruises), setting up autonomous Revolution zones, going viral and getting my voice heard.

I've spoke at 3 or 4 city council meetings this week including a board meeting today at 3pm.

Ironically, when the national guard showed up and there was trained military pointing an M16 at me everyday, everyone started to behave. Seems the cops still wanna "dominate" us but the national guard is held to a higher standard. I enjoy the irony.

In any case, Philly has a long tradition of mental health problems stemming from having the largest institutions in the country in the 1950s. When we de-institutionalized in the late 60s and early 70s, all those people were released on to the street and homeless. So in Philly proper, you'd be hard pressed to walk a single block without seeing at least 2 or 3 extremely mentally I'll street dwellers.

Our new budget, presented by a Democrat mayor and a 14/17 democrat city council, contained several cuts to social programs due to coronavirus restricting the budget a bit. Our cities response? Cut/end the entire adult literacy program. Defund the arts and endowment funds that generate $40b for the city annually, cut behavioral health services in half, cuts to the CARE fund which provides learning materials to over 11,000 area children, and give a $14m increase to the PD.

Not to hijack someone's movement, but I found my views regarding this very opposite to my more positive experience growing up. I lived in a community with brand new education facilities, brand new mental health facilities and a police force totalling 3 cars for the whole county. Our crime rate was extremely low because people were very educated and able to get decent paying jobs. And in the event they did suffer a mental break, help was all but already on the way.

Here we have seen budget increases of around 150m for police in the last decade to draw them to about $800m or about a 6th of our total operating budget. For comparison sake, we spend about 1/4 of that on education($220m), and 1/7 or just over $100m on behavioral health.

I don't believe in defunding the police entirely, I just believe that if more money was spent on education and behavioral health, you wind up needing the police less. Looking practically at our operating budget, there's a pretty clear path to redistributing about $120-130m to the arts to generate more economic growth, education to provide a more robust workforce, and behavioral health. According to research released from our dispatch, over 85% of calls to 911 are for fire, EMT or behavioral health problems here in Philly.

I hope we learn in this moment that democrats blindly supporting unions have led to a degradation in academies, and created an environment of police force impunity, and lower quality officers. It's a moment where the same folks calling for change are the ones who created the problem.

So we have to force them to change their ideology by bankrupting our PD in a sense. They can't afford to pay all this overtime to have people pointing their guns at me every day. As long as there is hundreds with me everyday, we can show that long term the way we police currently in our city is non-sustainable.

Annnnnnd that's the news with me. City council rejected the aforementioned budget yesterday and has begun working with protest leaders such as The Workers Revolutionary Collective, and MOVE (a black power group that was the only people ever to get actually bombed by the government in May of 1985) to find a solution where we agree to give the city back. If nothing improves by July 1, when a final budget for FY2021 is due, you'll see the riots begin again I believe. Ideally we won't hit that moment.