[Book Excerpt: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Benjamin: “The Second Amendment’s key phrase is in the opening line which says: ‘A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.’ What was the real purpose of this opening line?”
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[Book Excerpt: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Benjamin: These Slave Patrols, in time of relative calm, when there were no slave revolts and such, would often spend their time harassing and beating slaves. They were defenders of white supremacy.”
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[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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[George Floyd\Alec Karakatsanis]
Karakatsanis: “American policing is an instrument of white supremacy and wealth preservation – from its roots in slave patrols to the lynchings by strangulation and gunshot we see by mobile phone video today.”
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[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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[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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