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Police, Prisons and Prosecutors just Create More Victims
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
23 Feb 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Police, Prisons and Prosecutors just Create More Victims

“We believe that all forms of law enforcement” in the US “are rooted in systems of violence,” said Samah Sisay, an organizer with the abolitionist group “Survived and Punished” and a Justice Fellow with the Center for Constitutional Rights. Often-times, said Sisay, survivors are punished for surviving, such as the case of Marissa Alexander, who was initially sentenced to 60 years in prison for firing a warning shot, in her own home, to ward off her abusive husband.

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