The chapter examines the response to George Perry Floyd's 2020 killing and the unsettling utilization of excited delirium syndrome in the defense of the officers involved. This chapter highlights how Floyd's death brought police abolition into mainstream discourse, offering it as an option for addressing the pervasive issue of police restraint asphyxiation and the medicalization of police violence. By exploring the global awareness generated by Floyd's death, the chapter uncovers the potential for transformative change. It reflects on the power of Afro-Latiné approaches to provide alternative insights to understand spirit activism. This chapter considers how Black and Brown queer, trans, and undocumented practitioners of Afro-Latiné religions cultivate new ways of living that are in tune with copresences who empower a radical model for decolonial abolition.
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