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- Kate Levine and Joanna SchwartzPolice violence is tied to other agents in criminal law enforcement, including and especially prosecutors.
- Wilmer J. Leon IIIYou cannot separate the racist police aggression in the streets of the US and the racist US aggression against Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Libya and Syria.
- Julian ColaSo-called “racial democracy” has systematically excluded and kept black people at the dirt end of the socioeconomic totem pole in Brazil, as reflected in its media.
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