An Omaha-Lincoln People’s Archive of Police Violence gathers the accounts and stories of police violence as experienced by the citizens of Nebraska. The archive is a space for accountability, for disrupting and disputing the narratives pushed by the police, and for the survivors of police violence and their families to share and heal. Join us in sharing our experiences, any testimony, documents, or accounts that reflect on encounters or effects of police violence within your life or community is welcome.
Your testimony will be preserved and shared through the archive section of the website. All forms of testimony are encouraged, including: video, audio, written narrative, photos, etc. Testimonies can be submitted anonymously, and contributors are encouraged to protect their own identities as well as the identities of those involved in the accounts they are archiving. All files will be scrubbed of their metadata before being posted, and any other steps to ensure the safety of the community will also be taken.
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The experiences of everyday people can be difficult to preserve. Oftentimes, legal documents, media articles, and police reports are all that remain to tell the stories of communities; and we know these sources to often be biased or outright malicious to BIPOC. When you share your stories, your photographs, videos, audio recordings, and written narratives, you are sending an important message not only to the future, but to those around the world today. Our voices cannot be snuffed out, our experiences are real, our struggles are real, and our fight for change is real as well.