The ACAB Playlist
Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa contributes a definitive "fuck the police" playlist for protesting police violence and beyond.
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Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa saw you rhyming from the back of a cop car.
What we’ve been seeing in the last couple of weeks has been alarming, disgusting, horrific, but not new. Hundreds of black people and people of color in the United States have been historically subject to the brutal atrocities committed by law enforcement. It is a shameful part of the past and the present in American race relations; the very representation of this power dynamic, of this structure that is designed to impoverish, criminalize and keep racial minorities in servitude. America thrives and depends on the continued marginalization of the black, the immigrant, and the poor. Notorious racist and documented rapist Donald Trump, in search of his and his party’s dream of a oligarchic, totalitarian White ethno-state, is already responsible for the over 100,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic, risking millions of lives while spreading misinformation and forcing workers to keep serving their masters so he can pretend everything’s under control. And somehow, there’s always for things to get much worse The recent killing of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, an act caught on video that explicitly shows the “standard procedure” of the security forces, has sparked protests all around the world. Movements of peaceful protestors, activist organizations and general community solidarity have done incredible work in expressing their discontent and pushing for a better reality. Of course, the Governments have responded with repression, agent provocateurs, more disinformation, and more brutality. And mainstream Media has largely sided with the oppressors. But Police killings are a global thing. In Mexico, mere days after the Floyd murder, Jalisco Police detained worker Giovanni López for allegedly being outside without wearing a face-mask. They beat him up so bad he died. Protests erupted, and Police responded with tear gas, beatings, and death threats. All I am saying is that, no matter how awful it looks, how relentless and inhumane the State’s force is, this is just something that cops do. They will continue do it, because it’s what they exist for. It’s all about protecting property, capital interests, and the spaces of the rich. Not us. Not the people, and definitely not the most vulnerable. Cops killed George Floyd. Cops killed Giovanni López. Cops killed the 43 students in Ayotzinapa. Cops killed the hundreds of African-Americans we’re taking the streets for. They are martyrs and they have wings. And their deaths will not be in vain. We can — and we will — abolish the Police, and dismantle this bullshit system. All Cops Are Bastards. Black Lives Matter. Support the Cause. Here’s a list of anti-cop punk and hardcore songs to get you inspired:
Tracklist:
Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
The Clash – Police and Thieves
Poison Idea – The Badge
Anti-Flag – Police Story
F-Minus & Leftöver Crack – So You Wanna Be a Cop?
Angelic Upstarts – Murder of Little Towers
Millions of Dead Cops – I Remember
Black Flag – Police Story
Dicks – Dicks Hate The Police
Operation Ivy – Officer
Propagandhi – Pigs Will Pay
The Casualties – 1312
Dumb Fucks – a.c.a.b.
Leftöver Crack – Burn Them Prisons / One Dead Cop
4 Skins – a.c.a.b
The Unseen – Police Brutality
Choking Victim -- Hate Yer State
Against Me! – Baby, I’m an Anarchist!
Propagandhi – The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist
The Filaments – Bastard Coppers
Discharge – Protest and Survive
Pennywise – Fuck Authority
Body Count – No Lives Matter
Subhumans – No
Trash Talk – The Great Escape
Circle Jerks – Coup d’état
Suicidal Tendencies – Fascist Pig
S.O.A – Public Defender
NOFX – Puke on Cops
Bad Brains – Banned in DC
Batallion of Saints – Cops are Out
Scared Straight – Fight Back
The Vicious – The Pigs
Witches With Dicks – Fuck Cops Still
Star Fucking Hipsters – Honey, I Shrunk the Cops!
Upper Downer – Disarm the Police
The Broadways – Police Song
The King Blues – The Streets Are Ours
Product of Waste – Crook with a Badge
Strike Anywhere – Sunset on 32nd Street
Chokehold – Conditioned
Year of the Knife – Blue Lies
Eskorbuto – Mucha Policía, Poca Diversión
GG Allin – Fuck Authority
Pig Destroyer – Army of Cops
Agnostic Front – Police State
Final Conflict – Abolish Police
Doom – Police Bastard
The Crucifucks – Cops For Fertilizer
Dr. Know – Watch It Burn