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You Can’t Separate Police and Violence
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Oct 2018
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“Police reform can’t work,” said Micol Seigel, author of Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police,“because the rock-bottom function of the police is to do the work of the state -- and the work of the state is violence.” The professor of sociology and Africana Studies at Stony Brook University maintains that, “The main way that the capitalist market state has organized violence over the past 500 years, is by race.”

Police brutality

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