How Militarizing Police Sets Up Protesters as “the Enemy”
The message sent to police through arming them with military equipment is that they are in fact at war.
Police Brutality
Why Police Reform Is Not Enough
The focus on reforms like improved training doesn’t solve racially biased policing. That’s because of the nature of policing itself.
Videos of Black People’s Killings Are Sacred—So Stop Sharing Them
Cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed with the solemn reserve of lynching photographs.
An Uprising Was Inevitable
George Floyd’s death—and so many before his—was avoidable. But until Black Lives Matter to elected officials, police officers, and White Americans, the uprisings will continue.
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