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Policing is More Than Clubs and Guns
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
26 Nov 2018
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For Black people, policing is spread “across multiple state institutions,” including social welfare agency surveillance and school-to-prison pipelines, “and we can trace that history back to slavery,” said Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.

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