This is one reason why the challenge of addressing police violence towards black citizens is so great: Whatever one thinks of the past half-century of criminal-justice policy, it was not imposed on Americans by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are, at the very least, byproducts of democratic will. Via Sharon Morgan of Gather at the Table.
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