"Capitalism is dependent on inequality, on an underclass. If the model is profit over everything else, you’re not going to look at your policies to see what is most racially equitable.”
...this is not simply the story of one “rogue cop.” It is a window into the anti-Black violence perpetrated routinely by police in this country, as part of a brutal and racist system.
The debate over policing in the wake of Floyd’s death will last beyond Chauvin's trial and has already been shaped by what happened last May in Minneapolis.
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