Act of Police Brutality

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An Act of Police Brutality is a policing act that is an act of brutality.



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2018


2018b

  • Rhea W. Boyd. (2018). “Police violence and the built harm of structural racism.” In: The Lancet, Volume 392, ISSUE 10144, P258-259, July 28, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31374-6
    • QUOTE: Police killing black Americans is one of the oldest forms of structural racism in the USA. The act traces its roots to slavery. Yet it remains a tool for social control that violates black bodily autonomy, engenders racial inequality in access to public services, and re-inscribes the predominant racial order any time police indiscriminately and extrajudicially take a black life. …

2017