[Rayshard Brooks\Garrett Rolfe]
Miller told Barwick, “My husband did not deserve to die, and I should not live in fear while waiting for the man who killed my husband to be tried in court.”
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Racial Policing
Police Unions Are One Primary Problem in Racist American Policing
[Racial Policing\Police Unions]
Vox: “Police unions…have become the most vocal interest group opposing criminal justice reforms… they have, unlike most unions, been profoundly conservative institutions that uphold a particular white ethnic, “law and order”-focused variant of right-wing politics.”
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Book Excerpt #2: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”
[Book Excerpt: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Benjamin: “The police ‘Slave Patrol’ system was created to protect the profits of these slaveholders who feared slave uprisings would economically disrupt their ‘peculiar institution.”
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Tamir Rice’s Mom: “It’s An Empty Feeling Of Loss”
[Tamir Rice]
She rode in the ambulance with Tamir and held his hand in the hospital room. Investigators told her to stop touching him because his body was evidence.
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GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER A RESULT OF AMERICA’S POLITICAL FAILURE TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY
[“Speaking Truth To Empower”]
Benjamin: “George Floyd’s murder could’ve been prevented if politicians, and prosecutors, had a zero-tolerance policy regarding police brutality.”
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REP. OMAR AND MINNESOTA CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS: WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH
[Racial Policing\George Floyd Murder]
Minnesota Congressional leaders: “We write to express our outrage over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on the night of May 25, 2020, and to request that federal, state, and local authorities undertake a thorough investigation.”
Photo: YouTube\Roland Martin
AMERICAN POLICING MUST BE REBUILT ON TRUST NOT VIOLENCE
[Racial Policing]
Koehler: “We must disarm our concept of social order. This means a different sort of training for police officers — less target practice, more psychological awareness. Many police themselves recognize this.”
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WHAT WOULD MALCOLM X SAY IF HE WERE HERE TODAY?
[Black Star Editorial\Malcolm X]
Malcolm X: “When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom…A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.”
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AHMAUD ARBERY: SOCIAL DISTANCE PROTEST DEMANDED PROSECUTION OF KILLERS AND COVER-UP OFFICIALS
[Future Hope Column]
Glick: “This demonstration in Newark, NJ organized by the People’s Organization for Progress was called to demand that the white racists responsible for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Ga. be prosecuted.”
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LYING LOUISVILLE COPS MURDERED BREONNA TAYLOR THEN ACCUSE BOYFRIEND OF ATTEMPTED COP KILLING
[“Speaking Truth to Empower”]
Benjamin: These despicably dishonest officials want to railroad Walker on the false charge of attempted murder—after these police murdered his girlfriend Taylor. Doesn’t this show us just how perverse America’s so-called criminal “justice” system is?
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