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