An abolitionist frame of thought is a rebirth, a spiritual process, a painful undertaking, and an ancestral conjuring for Black and brown people.

Looting and rioting appear as immediately effective tactics in the struggle against whiteness, property and the police.

Weapons are flowing to pro-regime gangsters suspected of assassinating opponents of the US-backed regime.

We must instead think creatively about how to either take total community control of law enforcement as an institution or to bring about an independent, nation-building, self-governing reality.

It’s Cowboys and Indians updated: a wicked game where Black people are seen as predators but almost always end up prey.