When I was about six years old, the bones in my legs began to twist. By the time I was eight, I was walking with a profound misalignment; my feet were at a nearly sideways angle outward from my knees. My parents hated this and insisted that I walk with my feet straight ahead,

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The police do not exist to stop crime. The United States is a police state. And we are a police state because the white majority chose to be, because men with guns made us feel safer until we realized the enemy wasn't the "other," it was ourselves.

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If you want to be able to "protest like the French," you have to start by deconstructing the lie that the largest and most heavily armed and militarized police force in the world makes you safer. What we are learning the hard way is that it does not.

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every time you vote for a politician who promises to be "tough on crime"...this is the police force you are unambiguously supporting. And every time you call the police, you are using that militarized police force as a weapon against the person you are calling about.

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and for stigmatizing criminal defense, that hypermilitarized police force is unambiguously what you are supporting. Every time you support a police department receiving surplus military equipment, every time you make excuses for police using deadly force,

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