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Twitter user Julia Dupuis, @juliacdupuis

"I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall, two male officers joked behind me about my gender presentation: "Do you think it's a female? Are you sure?"

They then proceeded to start patting me down—touching my breasts and my front/back pockets, still laughing. Finally, one of them admitted," We shouldn't be doing this." Then they called over a female officer to search me. Their names are Officer Cho and Codilla of the LAPD.

I was not the only gender non conforming protestor to be called "it." There were trans/non-binary protestors divided into the 'male' and 'female' buses and deliberately misgendered. I was also not the only protestor to be sexually harassed or made uncomfortable.

After being held for over 4 hours—with protestors vomiting, fainting, forced to pee in their seats, losing circulation in their bruised wrists/arms—many began to advocate. We demanded access to bathrooms, water, and medical attention. We held them accountable to the law.

The only response was an officer telling us to "stop acting like high school girls." We were held even longer, watching other buses with prisoners being processed and released. When I got off the bus, an officer said, "Now that you're acting reasonable, we let you off the bus."

We spoke up about LAPD abuse and were punished for it. They heard us begging and screaming for medical attention and chose to keep us there for 5 1/2 hours to silence us.

After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: "Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice—I can make this much worse for you." In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: "You have no rights here."

This is what protestors are facing. This is the violence and harassment police have been using to silence us, wear us down, and force us off the streets. Even without rubber bullets, tear gas, and batons, they have other means of physical and emotional violence.

This is just a taste of the brutality that black and brown people experience with police. It is a privilege to be shocked by this. It is a privilege to be violated and humiliated for the first time. And I'm sure that my whiteness protected me in custody as it did on the street."

if you can, please take the time to donate to these bail funds in appalachia, or at least reblog. appalachia is a deeply impoverished part of this country and these people could use all the help you can give. this post includes links for cities that may not be in appalachia but another part of the state is. this is by no means comprehensive. if you have any links to funds from these states feel free to reply with a link, especially if they are for virginia, west virginia, or maryland. please do not hesitate to tell me if any of these are fake.

ALABAMA:

montgomery bail out

local organizer star robb (tweets from birmingham DSA confirming this) is bailing people out in hoover and birmingham, venmo: @/starrobb, cashapp: $StarRobb

etowah county’s freedom fund (twitter link) paypal is here

huntsville paypal

GEORGIA:

atlanta solidarity fund

support #justiceforgeorgefloyd protestors in atlanta

messiah young and taniyah pilgrim bail money, goes toward two black people who were attacked by police in their car

athens freedom fund

KENTUCKY:

louisville community

lexington bail

MARYLAND:

baltimore action legal team

MISSISSIPI:

mississippi bail fund collective

bail fund for zach borenstein, a man who was arrested during protests in mississippi on may 30th (excess funds will be going to the mississippi bail fund collective)

NEW YORK:

emergency release fund: new york city, which is specifically focused on trans people

OAR of tompkins county

brooklyn community bail–as of 5/30/2020 they are asking people to direct their donations elsewhere

the bronx freedom fund

may 2020 buffalo

liberty fund

rochester cashapp: $BLMRoc

NORTH CAROLINA:

take action chapel hill

NC community bail fund of durham

charlotte uprising

alamance county

forsyth county

asheville

fayetteville

greensboro

OHIO:

columbus freedom fund’s (twitter link) paypal is here

canton/akron

BLM cleveland (twitter link) paypal is here

cincinnati bail–for this one, you need to click the amount you want to donate and then pick “cincinnati bail fund”

PENNSYLVANIA:

lancaster bail fund for #blacklivesmatter–as of 6/2/2020 lancaster has met their goal and is no longer asking for donations

bukit bail fund of pittsburgh

dauphin county

philadelphia community bail

philadelphia bail fund–as of 6/2/2020 they have met their goal and are asking people to donate elsewhere

pittsburgh aftercare jail support

SOUTH CAROLINA:

columbia bail (twitter link), cashapp: $SodaCityBail; they also have a separate cashapp for money that goes toward supplies: $PSLColumbiaSC

charleston, SC protestor fund

TENNESSEE:

nashville bail

mid-south peace and justice center (memphis), cashapp: $OfficialBLMMemphis

just city memphis

hamilton county

knoxville venmo: @/endthemoneybail-knoxville, memo: “BLM”

VIRGINIA:

richmond community bail

roanoke bail

WEST VIRGINIA:

BLM west virginia

OTHERS:

appalachian feminist coalition bail fund, although they are encouraging donations to the aforementioned group in knoxville, tennessee

the bail project also operates in numerous states across the country, including those that are in appalachia

If you see a police car or a cop with a speaker looking thing on it, FUCKING RUN. It's known as an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), a device that, when activated, can permanently damage your hearing and cause serious harm. If you're too close, you'll be left in a lot of pain and squirming on the ground permanently deaf. Ear plugs do not work. Unless you have one of those shooting range headphones, you do not stand a chance against them. Again, if you see them pull up, RUN. This is what they look like.

This is why it’s important to SAY HER NAME OUTLOUD!!! Black women are dying and deserve justice too.

second petition

justice for breonna ft. petition

change.org petition

email form to louisville mpd 

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