Since its creation in the early 1700s, policing was established to create a system of terror to prevent enslaved uprisings and to return their enslaved humans to their “owners”
As we continue to see the rise of the Palestinian Solidarity Movements throughout college campuses, we are also seeing a surge in police presence in a militarization way.
Excessive force, brutality, and over-policing are being used to protect a system that was never meant to serve and protect. It was meant to inflict harm, pain, and dehumanize tactics.
Listen to my latest breakdown of the history of policing in American culture and why it was never meant to “Serve and Protect.”
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