Anthony Freda
While the tragic, ironic truth is that poor blacks have suffered the most under Obama’s militarization of the police, those of us who have been paying attention know it’s about more than race.
Innocent people of all colors have been raped, shot, beaten, tased, and even murdered by police in this country.
The weapons of war are being distributed to police departments in diverse neighborhoods, as if the communities they serve are a foreign enemy.
It’s time we police the police. See Copblock to learn more and get involved.
…an image of a man with a Molotov cocktail captures one man with a Molotov cocktail; but multiple images of a phalanx of men in riot gear, deploying tear gas, wielding machine guns, can exist only if disparate and complex social, economic and historical forces have conjoined to produce the events represented therein. The actions of a few angry people are asymmetrical to the existence of sophisticated weapons, the troops and the authority deploying them…
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