AMERICAN UPRISING
Jun 13, 2020
2 minutes
Illustration by NILANJAN DAS
The great American writer James Baldwin wrote an essay in 1966 in which he spoke of black neighbourhoods being “policed like occupied territory”. Since the police know that they are hated, he wrote, “they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more surefire formula for cruelty”.
America has some 18,000 local law enforcement agencies. This is where the battle against brutality will have
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