Days into the new year and LAPD has killed again and again and again. Shooting, tasing, taking the lives of Black and Latino men without pause, shattering the lives of children and loved ones. Takar Smith, a father of six, was having an episode and his wife went to the police asking for help. She told them, “Please don’t kill my husband. He’s not in his right mind.” What kind of way is it for people to have to live when you know, if you are Black, that the police are likely to kill your husband if you call for help? And then, like clockwork, they DO. As if a Black man having a mental breakdown is a “freebee” for them.

The next day in South Central, LAPD killed Oscar Leon Sanchez. He was 35 years old and having a major depressive episode. He supposedly had a sharp object and “stepped toward” the police, and they shot him. On the same day in Venice, 31-year-old teacher Keenan Anderson, who was clearly unwell, was forced to the ground and tased over and over again. He died of cardiac arrest.

This is completely unnecessary! We do NOT have to live this way.

This system has to be overthrown as soon as possible through a real revolution. These pigs enforce a system with white supremacy and male supremacy built into it. It’s a system that uses people to build its wealth and then throws them away, and it does this to people all over the world, destroying the environment and causing endless wars.

No amount of voting in different people can change this, we need revolution.

We could replace this system with a radically different and better one that uproots oppression instead of making it worse. The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian shows how in that new system, a people’s police force would be made up of people who would risk their own lives to protect the people, ESPECIALLY those having mental breakdowns, caring for them instead of treating them like garbage.

Right now, this society is being ripped apart from top to bottom. As dangerous as that is, it actually makes revolution more possible. We have the leadership we need to make this revolution in Bob Avakian (BA) and the strategy and the scientific method he’s developed, the new communism. We’ve never had a leader like BA and you need to know him (watch the Interviews with him at TheRevcoms on YouTube).

We are moving now to make this revolution, and you need to be part of it.

Bob Avakian says,

Instead of fighting and killing each other, what people need to be doing now is uniting to defend each other—opposing all unjust violence, not launching attacks on anyone but at the same time not allowing the police or “civilian” fascist thugs to wantonly brutalize and murder people. And people need to do this as part of building up the forces for revolution.

Instead of snarking and sniping at each other, and being divided by “identities,” people should be working to unite everyone, from every part of society, who can be united in the fight against oppression and injustice, with the goal of putting an end to this system that is the source of this oppression and injustice.

Anyone who doesn't want the murder and cruelty of this system to continue and wants to get this whole damn system off our backs and off the backs of the people of the world needs to sign up with the Revolution Club and start stepping out with this. We are in a time where these kinds of murder and cruelty will continue to get worse and more frequent, or we will make revolution.

This moment and time cannot be wasted. Get with this Revolution!

—Los Angeles Revolution Club

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