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US Cops Act Like Soldiers, While US Soldiers Police the World
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
07 Oct 2019
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Local police and foreign-deployed US militaries both practice a kind of “community policing” designed to control and gather intelligence on occupied populations, said Dererka Purnell, a movement lawyer, writer and activist. Purnell recently published an article in War and Peace, titled “Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing are Chapters in the Same Manifesto.”

Militarized Police

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