[American Racism]
Koehler: “Real change would probably have to begin with an enormous public conversation, and national acknowledgment of our history, including slavery and genocide — the theft of people, the theft of the continent — followed by atonement, reparations.”
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[“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 #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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[Racial Policing\Center for Constitutional Rights]
The monitor further found serious flaws in the NYPD’s process for investigating racial profiling complaints against its officers, to the extent that complainants, witnesses and officers are often not even interviewed, leads are not followed up on, and investigators often fail to take note of prior profiling complaints against particular officers.
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[Congress\H. Res 757\A.G. William Barr]
Rep. Rush: “Since his swearing in earlier this year, it has become painfully clear that Mr. Barr is more interested in being the glorified gofer to the President of the United States rather than the Chief Law Enforcement Officer to the American people…Equally alarming are his recent threats regarding the withholding of protection to certain communities who speak out against police brutality.”
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[Job Discrimination\Policing]
This Lieutenant [Black & female] is often tasked by Hayden and others with the most challenging assignments in our Department…She has more investigative experience and administrative experience than the two Lieutenants promoted to Captain by Hayden and Edwards.
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