On Ending the Police Occupation and Terrorism Against Black People

A statement by Community Movement Builders The recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd Jr., David McAtee, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Priscilla Slater, Sean Monterrosa, and others are the most recent proof that the police (both state-employed officers and white terrorists who deputize themselves to “police” Black people) and the criminal justice system…

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We Can’t Breathe: On the Lynching of George Floyd (2020)

Art and Essay by Kevin Rashid Johnson On May 24, 2020, a crowd of onlookers witnessed the slow death by asphyxiation of a handcuffed Black man in Minneapolis. This was a public lynching. Only, unlike in times past, this crowd didn’t cheer but instead pleaded over and over for the cop who murdered George Floyd,…

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