Sex workers rounded up in Arizona and pushed into church-based programs without charges | The… [via Facebook]
This is state violence against women. (If you don’t believe me, try to resist a “lawful detention” and see what happens to you.) It is also an atrocious assault on anything even resembling civil liberties.
“Police in Arizona have been rounding up sex workers and bringing them in handcuffs to a Phoenix-area church to meet with investigators and choose between a diversion program or possible jail time.
“Police and students from Arizona State’s School of Social Work have detained more than 350 people since 2011 in twice-a-year raids.
“THE SEX WORKERS ARE NOT OFFICIALLY ‘ARRESTED,’ police told Vice, BUT ARE ‘LAWFULLY DETAINED’ in windowless church rooms WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT. . . .”
#AbolishThePolice #DecriminalizeSexWork
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