police violence
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, Paris, on June 29, 2023. The slogan.
The cops are fascists from stem to stern and Americans just don't want to deal with the core fact that they have entrusted public safety to the worst people in.
A student of mine told me about this situation in Atlanta before it led to violence and this is just crazy stuff. Basically, the Atlanta Police Department wants to log.
To say the least, it is beyond unacceptable for American cops to murder about 100 people a year during routine traffic stops. Police in the US have killed nearly 600.
There are no good cops. But at least we are moving toward prosecuting the very worst of the racist murderers. Three police officers in Tacoma, Wash., were charged on Thursday.
Social movements come in different varieties. Some are movements that emerge slowly out of years and decades of organizing and remain relatively contained and containable by their leaders. These might.
Keisha Blain is one of our most important historians of Black history. At The Baffler, she has an important essay on Black women's long efforts to end police violence. You.
In our conversations about the disaster that is American policing, one thing that is not coming up as often as it should is that the police should not be allowed.