This is vile: a police state in Lexington, MS as rife with physical, sexual, and financial abuse, and civil-rights violations, as any sundown town. The coalition fighting for justice includes the National Police Accountability Project, ACLU Mississippi and Rukia Lumumba, & the Mississippi Bail Fund.
“They’re getting arrested for things like taking too long to get out of their car at the grocery store…the police had a complete and total campaign of fear and control over the Black citizens.” www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
The Lexington Police Department has made arrests equal to a fourth of the town’s population and burdened them with fines of over $1.7 million.
Seconding @themountaingoats.bsky.social: "Please miss me with any classist takes talking shit about the Deep South though, thanks, the problem is the institutions of power, same as anywhere else."