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NYPD Prey on Black and Brown Youth
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
26 Jun 2018
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New York City police are using a 42,000-name “gang” database to prey on Black and brown youth, said Sadiki “Bro Shep” Olugbala, of the Stop The Raids Coalition. Hundreds of Black and brown youth are being locked up” in massive police sweeps, “with no real legal representation,” said Olugbala. “If you take the youth out of the community, what’s left?”

Mass Black Incarceration
prison state
mass incarceration
New York City
policing

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