[“Speaking Truth To Empower”]
Benjamin: “Memo to the mayor, since he may be suffering from clinical amnesia: police abuse and murder Black people, not the other way around. Black people endure levels of abuse and violence from police that no other group is subjected too.”
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[ACLU\Dreasjon Reed]
ACLU’s Paige Fernandez: “These police killings are not one-off incidents and are not the result of a few bad apples, but rather emblematic of the systemic problems that pervade our policing institutions.”
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[State Budget\Cuomo]
“The state legislature should have used its considerable power to block Cuomo’s harmful expansion of criminalization, his neglect of homeless and other low-income New Yorkers, and his concessions to racist fear-mongering championed by police unions.”
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[Book Excerpt #9\”The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
The murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on December 9, 1969, in Chicago, is an example of outright blatant political police murder.
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[Book Excerpt #8\”The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Twenty-five years after the L.A. Rebellion, on April 19, 2015, Baltimore native Freddie Gray died, after being in a coma from a severed spine he received while being arrested on April 12, 2015.
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[Book Excerpt #5\”The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
From May 1 to May 3, of that year, Black Memphis neighborhoods were victimized by White mob violence. White policemen were the main culprits in igniting the mayhem and murder that occurred.
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[Book Excerpt #4 on: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
In the 1876 Cruikshank Case the Supreme Court ruled then”The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution.”
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[Police Brutality\William Green]
Prince George’s County Chief of Police Henry Stawinski:“I am unable to come to our community this evening and offer you a reasonable explanation for the events that occurred last night. I have concluded that what happened last night is a crime.”
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[Police Brutality\PBA Lawsuit\CCRB]
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) is an unprecedented campaign to end discriminatory policing practices in New York, and to build a lasting movement that promotes public safety and reduces reliance on policing.
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[Book Excerpt #3 on: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Southern policing, which morphed from these vigilante-style Slave Patrols, would soon show its pernicious effects—especially, in cases where southern sheriffs collaborated with lynch-mobs, and racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
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