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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