Colin Kaepernick Calls for Abolishing the Police

Colin Kaepernick Calls for Abolishing the Police.
Kaepernick wrote an essay for a series called 'Abolition for the People,'.
which was published
at level.medium.com
on Wednesday.
In it, he revisits his 2016 statements about police brutality, admitting that he "missed the larger picture.".
I wanted change. I wanted it to stop. I wanted to reform what I saw. Yet, the reforms often proposed ... were the same recycled police reforms consistently proposed in the past,
Colin Kaepernick, via LEVEL.
And in both the past and the present, these reforms have done nothing to stop the actions that force us to #SayTheirNames,
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Kaepernick went on to call for the abolishment of police and prisons.
By abolishing policing and prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishments ...,
Colin Kaepernick, via LEVEL.
... but we can create space for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness ...,
Colin Kaepernick, via LEVEL.
... access to education, and job creation as well as community-based methods
of accountability,
Colin Kaepernick, via LEVEL.
I am hopeful we can build a future that imagines justice differently,
Colin Kaepernick, via LEVEL