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If it helps you sleep at night, you’ve won. You’ve won being devoid of honesty and integrity. You’ve won violating civil and human rights. You’ve won violating the constitution and due process. You’ve won being inhumane, unethical, abusers and frauds. You’re winners. Come get your medal 🏅

Trigger Warning: Death, restraint, violence, racism, police accountability

I’m not sharing the video.

I’m not going to contribute to the spectacle of a Black man’s final moments being passed around the internet while people become desensitised to human suffering.

I refuse to drain somebody of their dignity in death for clicks, engagement, outrage, or debate.

But I also refuse to stay silent.

Say his name.

Yves Sakila.

A 35 year old Congolese man who had lived in Ireland since 2004.

According to reports, Yves Sakila was restrained by multiple security guards on Dublin’s Henry Street following allegations of shoplifting. Footage reportedly shows him being held face down on the ground for several minutes before Gardaí arrived, including attempts to pin or hold his head and neck down during the restraint.

He was then handcuffed before becoming unresponsive. CPR was performed before he was taken to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Investigations are now examining whether the restraint and force used contributed to his death.

And I’m going to say this plainly.

A man was pinned to the ground by multiple people and never made it home alive.

That is not something we should become numb to.

Because too many people still rush to justify force before they even ask whether somebody’s humanity was protected.

Too many people still only care about dignity when the victim is seen as “perfect”.

I don’t care what somebody is accused of, no human being should end up dead like this.

And yes, we need accountability from all systems with power over human life, security, police, governments, institutions, all of it.

Because none of us can afford to keep looking away while deaths during restraint become normalised.

Say his name.

Yves Sakila.

Most systems don’t collapse because people stop complying.
They collapse when people start asking better questions.

If questioning has been framed as a disruption in your world, that’s a clue.
Not about you, but about what’s being protected.

What questions were you taught not to ask?

Self-doubt is often framed as insecurity.
In reality, it’s frequently engineered.

When people distrust themselves, they’re easier to manage, easier to silence, and less likely to organise.

Ask yourself:
Who benefits when I keep questioning myself instead of the system?

We’re taught to personalise systemic harm.

To ask what we did wrong instead of asking how power is operating.

Toxic systems survive by keeping people self-blaming, hopeful, and exhausted.

If this carousel made something click, pause there.

What have you been taught to tolerate that you wouldn’t accept anywhere else?