Friday, August 15, 2014

Black Americans get terrorized every day.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/black-americas-everyday-reality-ferguson-and-world-terrorizes-us?akid=12130.294211.A3FG5S&rd=1&src=newsletter1015552&t=7

The thing is, we actually don’t have to imagine how police are treating black people. It’s there, right in front of our very eyes. People are being  ordered to disperse, but cornered by police who have blocked all possible paths home. People who are arrested without cause — and complying with officer instructions —  are suffering physical abuse for resisting arrest. Police are “accidentally”  assaulting “trespassers” and then mocking their injuries. Police are  setting fire to property and pointing their guns in residents’ faces.  Police are  terrorizing citizens in packs. None of this is new. None of this is extraordinary. What is happening right now in Ferguson, Missouri, happens every day in black America.

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