A tumblr post by a person called Unbossed with a reply by someone called CandidlyAutistic. The first says "Treat a cop just like you treat a gun when you don't know whether it's loaded or not. Assume that it is loaded and that it could cause someone's death at any time. Remember that a cop, unlike most firearms, has no safety mechanism or standard method for "clearing" them. Never point a cop at anyone whose blood you could not accept having on your hands." The next post says "Those of you who are here for the autism, search "autism police brutality" and read the NYT article. If you are allistic, if you have autistic kids, if you teach autistics, if your brother's mother's niece's cousin is autistic, then look at the statistics on how much more likely we are to have encounters with the police. Then look at how much more likely we are to have violence used against us by police. Next, look at the videos and see just how many of those interactions show autistic exhibiting typical autistic behavior. Finally, pay close attention to how many of those are initially escalated by the police. Yelling. D4opping their voice. Hand on weapon. Giving non-explicit orders. Telling them to calm down. Telling them to do something unclear (drop the weapon when they are holding a cellphone, toy gun, a screwdriver, a stick, a knife, a toy train - all real examples, or anything that has a more explicit name). Walking closer when autistics can't back away. Running up. Sirens on. Flashing lights. Radios making noise. Loved ones telling the police the autistic doesn't understand. This is what happens when you point the police at one of us. Then go back and look at how many of those autistics are POC. How many are specifically black. And view it through the lens of institutional racism and anti-blackness and white supremacy on top of all the ableism. Ask yourself, is it worth being the person who pushed the first domino that started the machine that ultimately killed a person? Because that is the risk when you call the police."

Police disproportionately target autistic people (and likely other neurodivergent people). If you do not take ableism and sanism seriously, you will get people killed