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Police Uphold White Supremacy and Rule of the Rich
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
26 Feb 2019
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The militarization of police and so-called community policing are “two complimentary aspects of a single strategy of counterinsurgency” directed against Black communities, said Kristian Williams, author of “Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America.” The abolition movement is about “making police obsolete.”

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