2013-2014 ATTACK OF THE PATTY ROLLER OVERSEERS (PAT-ROL OFF-I-C-ERS) HERES WHY COPS ARE ALLOWED BY LAW TO GUN BLACK PEOPLE DOWN AND GET OFF. WERE GOING THRU THIS BECAUSE WE DONT KNOW HISTORY, SO WE ARENT ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHATS GOING ON. NOW YOU DONT HAVE A EXCUSE, READ BELOW REPOST SHARE TAG BROUGHT TO YOU BY cepher-store.mybigcommerce Paddy rollers 1700s Slave patrols (called patrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers by the slaves) were organized groups of white men who monitored and enforced discipline upon black slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. Black persons were subjected to questioning, searches, and other forms of harassment. Oftentimes, whippings and beatings for non-compliant, and even compliant slaves, could be expected. More than floggings and beatings, however, slaves feared the threat of being placed on the auction block. SLAVERY AFTER 1865 VIA THE 13TH AMENDMENT LOOPHOLE The 13th amendment Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. LAWS WERE PUT INTO PRACTICE TO EXPLOIT THE 13TH AMENDMENT LOOPHOLE Black codes Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. With legal prohibitions of slavery ordered by the Emancipation Proclamation, acts of state legislature, and eventually the Thirteenth Amendment, Southern states adopted new laws to regulate Black life. Although these laws had different official titles, they were (and are) commonly known as Black Codes Pig Laws -“Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses were treated as felonies, with harsh sentences and fines. vagrancy statues Under the vagrancy laws, police arrested people who were suspected of crime, but who had not committed a crime. Eventually, punishments were changed to a fine, or several months in jail. After the U.S. Civil War, the South passed Black Codes, laws that tried to control freed black slaves. Vagrancy laws were included in these codes. Homeless unemployed black Americans were arrested and fined as vagrants. Usually, the person could not afford the fine, and so was sent to county labor or hired out to a private employer.
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