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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Part
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href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Update-on-Operation-Ghetto-Storm-Part-1-20150713-0007.html"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Update-on-Operation-Ghetto-Storm-Part-1-20150713-0007.html">http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Update-on-Operation-Ghetto-Storm-Part-1-20150713-0007.html</a></a></span></span><o:p></o:p><o:p><br>
</o:p>Part 2: <small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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</o:p>Part 3:
<small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Update-on-Operation-Ghetto-Storm-Part-3-20150721-0013.html">http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Update-on-Operation-Ghetto-Storm-Part-3-20150721-0013.html</a></small></font></p>
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13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:
12pt;">“Once<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>classic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>method<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>lynching<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>was the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>rope.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Now<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>policeman’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>bullet….</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><i><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">We<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>submit<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>evidence<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>suggests<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>killing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Negroes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>has become<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>policy in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>United<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>States<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>policy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>most<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>practical<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>expression<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>government
policy….<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>Force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and violence<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>systematically<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>and consistently<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>employed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>quell<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the righteous<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>anger<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Blacks<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>justified<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>calling<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>murder<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>an exercise<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>‘law<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>and order’.”</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">— from<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span><b>We<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Charge<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Genocide</b>,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>1951 Petition<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>United<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Nations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>edited<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by William
Patterson,<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>endorsed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by W.E.B.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>DuBois,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Paul<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Robeson,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Harry<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Haywood<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>others.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:3.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">More<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>than<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>six<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>decades<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>passed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>since<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Patterson’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>authoritative<span
style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>study<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>killings of Black<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Within<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>span,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Deacons<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for Self<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Defense<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>others<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>used<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>arms<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to protect<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Freedom<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Movement<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>vigilantes<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>South;<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Panther Party<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>for Self<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Defense<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>organized<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>thousands<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>based<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>demand<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>end<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police brutality<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>murder<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people;<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>insurrections<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>sparked<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span
style="mso-font-width:99%">atrocitie</span>s <span
style="mso-font-width:99%">rocke</span>d every<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>major<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>city<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>country.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Then<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>February<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>2012, a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilante,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>George Zimmerman,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Trayvon<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Martin.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Two<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>years<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ago<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>today<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>acquittal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of George Zimmerman<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>re-kindled<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>movement<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>impunity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>for police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilante<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>killers.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Yet, despite<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>outrage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>over<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>state’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>protection<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of Zimmerman,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>spotlight<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>on impunity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who summarily<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>execute<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>on camera,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>killing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>continues with<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>shocking<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>regularity.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>And the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>impunity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of police,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>vigilantes,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>proceeds<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">apace.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:28.7pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">What<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>makes<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>this<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>modern<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>day<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>lynching<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>seemingly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>inoperable<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>tumor<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>woven<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>into<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the arteries<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>sinew<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>U.S. body politic?<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>This<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>first<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>three-part<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>series<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that offers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>diagnosis<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of sorts<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of our national<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>disease.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.7pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt;">A cornerstone<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of
police<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>impunity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>failure<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>government<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>require reliable<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>accurate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>reporting.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>resources<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>amass<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and disseminate<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>data,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>still<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>must<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>rely<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>accounts<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>killings<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>invariably justify<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>mayhem.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Impunity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>breathes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>life<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>into<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>chronic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>assaults<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by cops<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>state’s privatized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>killers.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>In May<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>June<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>2012, <i><u><span
style="color:blue">Operation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Storm<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></span></u></i><u><span
style="color:blue">(OGS)</span></u><span
style="color:blue"> </span><span style="color:black">documented<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>30<o:p></o:p></span></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>per<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>month<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by police,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>guards<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilantes.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>In May<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2015,<o:p></o:p></span><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Guardian’s<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span></span></i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black">website<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>counted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>26 killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>alone.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>count<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for June<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>2015 is<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> 19. If they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>followed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>OGS methodology<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>include<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>vigilantes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>guards,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>total for June<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>2015 would<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>be<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>least<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>28 or one<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>every<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>25.7 hours for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>month.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Initially<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>enraged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>by the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Florida<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>police’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>refusal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>arrest<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Zimmerman<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>murder<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of Trayvon<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Martin,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>we<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>began<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>collect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>names<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of murdered<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>demonstrate<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>that Trayvon’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>killing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>systemic.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>We<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>found that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>2012, police,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>guards<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and vigilantes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>total<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of 313 Black<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Divide<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>number<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of hours in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>year<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>by 313 and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>you get<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>one<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>every<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>28 hours. We<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>called<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Report<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><i>Operation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Storm<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></i>(OGS) because<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>name<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>encapsulates<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>our conclusion<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>mission,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>state policies<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>institutions,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>high<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>tech<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>hardware,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>mind-set<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> characterized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>invasion<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of Iraq<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>also<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>sustain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>occupation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>war<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>on Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and Brown
communities<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>inside<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>U.S.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>guards<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilantes,<span
style="letter-spacing:2.6pt"> </span>protected<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>by “stand-
you-ground”,<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>“self-defense”,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“home<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>castle<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>doctrine”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>laws,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>join<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<o:p></o:p></span>
<span
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New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">18,000 law<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>enforcement<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>agencies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>employing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>approximately<span
style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>250,000 police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>sheriffs<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>occupation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>containment<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>communities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Th</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">e<span
style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">M</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ss</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">o</span>n<span
style="letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">o</span>f<span
style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Po</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">li</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">c</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:.85pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span>n<span
style="letter-spacing:.45pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">B</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">l</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ac</span>k<span
style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Co</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.2pt">mm</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">un</span><span
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style="letter-spacing:.1pt">e</span>s<span
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style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span>n<span
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style="letter-spacing:.15pt">H</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">s</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">o</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">r</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span>c<span
style="letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt; mso-font-width:102%">Con</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-font-width: 102%">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width:102%">ex</span><span
style="mso-font-width:102%">t</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">White<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>supremacy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>much<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>than<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>or ranting<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>right-wing<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>extremist, admirer<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>or member<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Ku Klux<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Klan.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>White<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>supremacy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>flowed in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>mainstream<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>since<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>beginning<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of U.S. history.<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></p>
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of interlocking,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>mutually-reinforcing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>institutions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>—<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:95%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> economic,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>military,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>legal,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>educational,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>religious<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>system<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of exploitation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>oppression<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of continents,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>nations,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>peoples<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>by white<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and privilege.”<span
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New Roman",serif;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>groundbreaking<span
style="letter-spacing: -.65pt"> </span>historian,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Gerald<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Horne,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>demonstrated<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>how the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>United<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>States—a settler<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>colony<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>based<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on stolen<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>land<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>built<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>stolen<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>labor--<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>world’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>first nation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>founded<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>on white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacy.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>Its<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>founding<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>heroic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>democratic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>myths<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>lies.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>The<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:95%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> so-called<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>“American<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>Revolution”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>was,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>fact,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>counter-revolution<span
style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>by slave<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>owners<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and land<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>pirates<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>who feared<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>British<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Crown would<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>not<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>allow<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>profitable<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>white supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>enterprise<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>continue.</span><span
style="font-size:
8.0pt;line-height:95%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;
position:relative;top:-5.5pt;mso-text-raise:5.5pt">2<span
style="letter-spacing: .55pt"> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 95%; color: black;">Slavery<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>slave<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>trade<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>made<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>development<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>and economy<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>United<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>States<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>possible.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
</p>
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style="margin-top:.9pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:16.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>system<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of slavery<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>enlisted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>settlers—including<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>those<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>who owned<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>no land—to control<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>lives<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of enslaved<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Africans.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>earliest<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>“law<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>enforcement<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>institutions”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>or police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>forces<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>grew<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>networks<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>whose<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>task<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>contain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and control<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>enslaved<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>especially<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>those<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>who attempted<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>escape.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>After<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Civil<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> War<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>end<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of Reconstruction,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>between<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>1877 and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>1950, white<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>organizations<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Ku Klux<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Klan,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>civilian<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>mobs,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>sheriffs<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>colluded<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>enforce
sharecropping--different<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt">
</span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>slavery<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>name<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>only--<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>maintain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Jim<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Crow--de<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>jure apartheid<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>denial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of citizenship.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>institutionalized<span
style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>system<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of omnipresent
surveillance,<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>prison<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>plantations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>than<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>4000 lynchings<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>terrorize<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people into<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>submission<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>re-entrench<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>power.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:4.75pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
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width:194px;height:2px"><img
src="cid:part6.06010705.01080608@freedomarchives.org"
v:shapes="_x0000_s1028" height="2" width="194"></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">While<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>this<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>state-sanctioned<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>terror<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>centered<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>South,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>many<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Northern<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Western states<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>were<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>sites<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of lynching<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>practiced<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>some<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>form<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of slavery<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>then<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Jim<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Crow. White<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>riots<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>or pogroms<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>mobilized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>mobs<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>many<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>northern cities<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>contain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who had<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>migrated<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>North<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>during<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>after<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>World<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>War<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>I. Local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>throughout<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>country<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>enforced<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>ordinances<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>barred<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>from </span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">living<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“Sundown<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>towns”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>where<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>worked.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Despite<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>numerous<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>proposals,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the federal<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>government<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>never<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>passed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>anti-lynching<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>law<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>or any<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>legislation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>protect Black<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>excesses<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>citizen<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>attacks.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Rather,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>when<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Black people’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>tradition<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of resistance<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>gained<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>strength<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>1960’s, the federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>government<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>launched<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>COINTELPRO.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Under<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>program,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>dissent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>was criminalized,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>leaders<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>militants<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>were<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>assassinated<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>or incarcerated<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>activities were<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>disrupted.</span></font><!--[endif]--></p>
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style="margin-top:.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span> <span
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New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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style="margin-top:.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:9.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">This<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>failure<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>protect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>human<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>rights<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>persists<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>toothless<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>pretenses<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>government<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hold<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>accountable.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span><i>Operation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Storm<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></i>documented how
only<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>12 percent<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>extrajudicial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>killings<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>might<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>be<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>justified<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by international<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>human<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>rights<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>standards.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>That<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>leaves<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>275 killings<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>were<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>tantamount<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>to lynching—<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>astronomical<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>number<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>compared<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>heyday<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of lynching.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: black;">As early<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>1960, in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>essay<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>published<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>by <b><i>Esquire</i></b>,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>James<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Baldwin<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>explained<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>mission of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“modern”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Harlem,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>New<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>York:<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><i>… the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>only<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>way<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>a ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>be oppressive…..<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>very<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>presence<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>an insult,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>would<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>be,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>if<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>spent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>their entire<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>day<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>feeding<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>gumdrops to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>children.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>represent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>world,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>world’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>real<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>intentions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>are,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>simply,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>for<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>world’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>criminal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>profit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and ease,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>keep the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>man corralled<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>up here,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>his<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>place.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>badge,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>gun in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>holster,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and the swinging<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>club<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>make<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>vivid<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>what<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>will<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>happen<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>should<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>his<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>rebellion<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>become<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>overt.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:99%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">In 2013, the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>New<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>York State<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Senate<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>heard<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>testimony<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>former<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>NYPD Commissioner<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Kelly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>told<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>NY State<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>governor<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>his<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>aim<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>instill<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>fear<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>young Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Latino<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>men<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>every<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>time<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>left<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>home.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>A recording<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>made<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Brooklyn<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Police Station<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>showed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Kelly’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>views<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>permeate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>NYPD:<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>“If<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>you get<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>too<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>big<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>crowd there,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>you know, they’re<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>going<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>get<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>out<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of control,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>they’re<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>going<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>think<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>they own the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>block.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>don’t<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>own the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>block,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>alright?<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>might<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>live<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>there,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>but<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>we<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>own the block,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>alright?<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>We<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>own the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>streets<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>here.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">”</span></span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;position:relative;
top:-5.0pt;mso-text-raise:5.0pt">3</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Within<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>last<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>year<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>uprisings<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>response<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Ferguson<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Baltimore<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>have illuminated<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>how consistent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>mission<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>been<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>over<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>decades.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Whether<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>they are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>equipped<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>candy,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>traditional<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>billy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>clubs<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>sidearms<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>or tanks<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>high<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>tech military<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>equipment;<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>whether<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>captains<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>give<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>them<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>arrest<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>quotas<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>require<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>petty harassment<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>or follow<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>principles<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of “community<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>policing”,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>mission<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>remains<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the same:<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>contain,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>control<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>submission<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:58.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">In Part<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>2 of this<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>series<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>we’ll<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>investigate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>enduring<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>ideological<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>structural
underpinnings<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of
police<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>state<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>occupation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>control<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>communities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 103%; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font>
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style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Turning<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Wheels<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>State-Sanctioned<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>K<span
style="mso-font-width:99%">illing</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.4pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
13pt; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:6.3pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: black;">“Plaintiffs’<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>decedent’s<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>injuries,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>losses,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and damages<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>complained<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>were<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>directly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and proximately<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>caused<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>acts<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Plaintiffs’<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>decedent,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>not<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>this<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Defendant.”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span></span></i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black">– from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>initial court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>filing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Cleveland<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>City<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Attorney<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>rejecting<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>responsibility<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>fatal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>shooting by police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>officer<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Timothy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Loehmann<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>who shot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Tamir<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Rice,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>12-year-old<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>child<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>sat on a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>playground<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>swing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>toy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>gun.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:1.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:8.1pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Since<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>George<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Zimmerman<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>acquitted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of murdering<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>Trayvon<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Martin<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>two<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>years<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ago,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>at least<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>600 Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>been<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by police,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>guards<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilantes.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>An unknown number<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>parents<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>loved<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>ones<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of those<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>who died<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>had<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to endure<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>legalistic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>contortions<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>media<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>campaigns<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>blame<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>deceased<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>for their<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>own deaths.</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#111111">This<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>second<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>three-part<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>series<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>investigate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>forces<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>behind<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>unending<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>war waged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>primarily<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>by police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Here<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>we<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>focus<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ideological<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and political<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>structures<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>perpetuate<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>“Operation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Storm”.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.15pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:6.4pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: black;">The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt">
</span>sickening<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>pattern<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of vicious<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>violence<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>humiliation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>by police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>now on full display<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>social<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>media<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>leaves<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>no doubt.<span
style="letter-spacing: 2.75pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>personnel<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>departments<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>throughout<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the country<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>attract,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>recruit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>maintain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>men<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>women<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>who hold<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>utter contempt.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>Yet<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>convictions<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>not<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>primary<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>cause<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of <span
style="mso-font-width:99%">the chronic</span> epidemic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>killings.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>A panel<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of expert<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>psychologists<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>could<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>screen<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>out<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>all police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>recruits<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who display<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>leanings<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>would<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>hardly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>improve<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the rates<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>killing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>acquittal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of Zimmerman<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue">failure<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>charge</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>but<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>10 of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>officers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>who killed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>hundreds<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2012 is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>pattern<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that persists<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>today<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>exoneration<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of Darren<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>Wilson<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>high-profile<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>killers.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>This pattern<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>by design.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>It<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>product<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>web<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of support<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>for police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilante<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>killing<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> under<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>auspices<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of legislative,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>executive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>judicial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>branches<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>state<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<o:p></o:p></span></font>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>levels<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>reinforced<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>by a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hegemonic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Th</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">e<span
style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">N</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">arra</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">ti</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">v</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:1.15pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">o</span>n<span
style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">h</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Po</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">liti</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ca</span>l<span
style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt; mso-font-width:102%">S</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-font-width: 102%">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width:102%">a</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt;mso-font-width:102%">ge</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
13pt; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.7pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: black;">Politicians<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>right<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>left<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>pander<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>ideology<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>assumes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>whiteness as<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>universal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>standard<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>that’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>good and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>blames<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>peoples’<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>pathology,
criminality<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>personal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>failings<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>own oppression.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>While<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>right-wing extremist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Republicans’<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>policies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>overtly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>racist,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Democrats<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>often not<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>much<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>different.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>President<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Bill<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Clinton<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>campaigned<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>on a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>platform<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of “ending<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>welfare<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>we<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>know it”.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>That<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>platform<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>openly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>pandered<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>those<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>who agreed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>far-right
ideologues<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Rick<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Santorum<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>who, years<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>later<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>declared,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>“I<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>don’t<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>want<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>make<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black people’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>lives<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>better<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by giving<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>them<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>somebody<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>else’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>money.”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Clinton<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>also<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>sponsored various<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>get-tough-on-crime<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>policies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>exploded<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>prison<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>population.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>He<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>deregulated the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>financial<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>system<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>launched<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>NAFTA<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>globalization<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>measures<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>resulted in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>financial<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>ruin<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>disproportionately<span
style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>affected<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>More<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>recently<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>major<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"></span><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> Democratic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>Party<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>leaders,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Harry<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Reid<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Joe<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Biden,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>praised<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Obama’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>electability<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>on the grounds that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>“had<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>no Negro<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>dialect”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>“bright<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>clean<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>nice-looking guy”.<o:p></o:p></span>
<span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA"></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.9pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:3.45pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">However,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>many<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>argued<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>first<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>African<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>American<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>President,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Barack<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Obama has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>been<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>most<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>disappointing<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>politician<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>pander<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacy.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>He<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>shrewdly strikes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>“balanced”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>pose,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>his<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>speeches,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>actions,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>his<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>2013 address<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>at Morehouse.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Yet<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>invariably<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>emphasizes<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>conservative,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>neo-liberal<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>privatized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>approach that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>holds<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>responsible<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>for overcoming<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>centuries<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of entrenched<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>white supremacy.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>In a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>press<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>conference<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>after<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of Baltimore<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>took<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>streets<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to express<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>outrage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>breaking<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Freddie<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Gray’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>spine,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Obama<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>joined<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><span
style="mso-font-width:99%">the c</span>horus of right-wing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>pundits<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>“objective”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>media<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who labeled<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>“rioters<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>criminals and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>thugs.”</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:1.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">Look<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Dylann<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Roof’s
rationalization<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>for
Charleston<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>massacre<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>obsesses<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>on <span
style="mso-font-width:99%">“blac</span>k- on white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>crime”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>righteousness<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>of Zimmerman’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>vigilantism.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Then<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span
style="mso-font-width:99%">c</span>ons<span
style="mso-font-width:99%">ide</span>r how Dylann’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>thinking<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>overlaps<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>hegemonic<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>narrative<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">—</span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>propagated<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>by the first<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>president--<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>demonizes,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>criminalizes<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>fears<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>This<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>narrative is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>manifest<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“</span><u><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue;">"justifications”</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue; letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:#333333">police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>for killing<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>labeled “suspects”.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Some<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>47 </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black">percent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>report<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>shot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>suspect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>because<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>(the police)<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>“felt<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>threatened”.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>No corroborating<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>evidence<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>ever<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>given<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>or <span
style="mso-font-width:99%">reque</span>s<span
style="mso-font-width:99%">te</span>d. F<span
style="mso-font-width:99%">ourtee</span>n percent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of suspects<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“gave<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>officer<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>no choice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>but<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>fire”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>because<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>fled. Only<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>13 percent<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of suspects<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>were<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>actually<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>course<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of firing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>weapon.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:1.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:4.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">Unfortunately,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>some<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>movements<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>impunity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>implicitly<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>accept<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>part<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of a white<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>narrative.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>dedicate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>protests<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>those<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>“innocent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">/</span>unarmed” victims<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>killings.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>It<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>tempting,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>natural,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>community<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>outrage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>builds<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>grounds that<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>victim<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>child,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>heading<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>college,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>or only<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>carrying<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>skittles.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>But, the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>focus<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>on unarmed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>victims<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>implies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>might<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>be<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>acceptable<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>kill<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>an <u>armed</u><span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>person.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>It<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>undermines<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>movements<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>for justice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>human<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>rights<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by accepting the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>myth<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>cops<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>heroes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>who protect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>community<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>criminals.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.7pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:7.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">Operation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Storm<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></span></i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:#333333">found that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>44 percent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>had<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>no weapon<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span><span
style="mso-font-width:99%">at the</span> time<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>were<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>executed.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Given<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>many<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>cases<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>where<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>public<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>learned<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>misrepresented<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>wallets,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>lighters,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>cell<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>phones<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>or pointed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>fingers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>guns, OGS
recommended<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>caution<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>accepting<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>reports<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>without<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>corroboration.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>Nevertheless, gun
possession<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>legal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>41 states<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>where<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>not<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>legal,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">possession<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">alone<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>not a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>capital<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>offense.</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.55pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">P</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.1pt;">o</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">li</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.1pt;">c</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">i</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.1pt;">e</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black;">s<span style="letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing: .1pt">ha</span>t<span
style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">I</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ns</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">tit</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">u</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">ti</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ona</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">li</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">z</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:1.7pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">h</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">B</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">l</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ac</span>k<span
style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">“</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">C</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">r</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">m</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">na</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">l</span>”<span
style="letter-spacing:1.3pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt; mso-font-width:102%">N</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width: 102%">arra</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-font-width:102%">ti</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt;mso-font-width:102%">v</span><span
style="mso-font-width:102%">e</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.15pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
14pt; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:2.35pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Great<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Migration<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>away<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Southern<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>sharecropping<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>terror<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>formed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Black communities<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>now occupy.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Legislation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>regulations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333"> local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>levels,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>between<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>1934 and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>1962, denied<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>home<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>loans<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>or even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>right<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333"> settle<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>anywhere<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>outside<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>ghettoes.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>In the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>1960’s, police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>departments<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>first<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>created
paramilitary<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>units<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>repress<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>rebellions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>swept<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>major<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>cities<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>US. In</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:black"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333"> 1971, President<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Nixon<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>declared<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“War<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>on Drugs”,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>which<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>gave<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>moralistic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>cover<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span> <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">raft<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of laws<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>criminalized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>life<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>led<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>omnipresent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>policing,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>surveillance<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and mass<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>incarceration.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>In the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>1986, President<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Ronald<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Reagan<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>issued<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>national<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>directive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>that declared<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>“illicit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>drugs a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>threat<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>national<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>security.”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>And so began<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>domestic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>arms<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>race among<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>departments<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>indoctrination<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>win-at-all-costs<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>mentality<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>of <span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"></span>soldier.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.9pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:21.75pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:101%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#333333">Since<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>9<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">/</span>11,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Patriot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Act<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>its<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>various<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>incarnations<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>strip<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>citizens<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of our basic<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>rights </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black">that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>protect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>forms<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>tyranny,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>give<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>various<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>agencies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>carte<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>blanche<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to monitor<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>citizens’<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>every<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>move<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>utterance,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>justify<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>racist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>profiling<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>provided<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>infinite funds to<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>maintain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>system<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of mass<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>incarceration.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Edward<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Snowden’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>revelations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>showed how the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>behemoth<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of mass<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>surveillance<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>taken<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>on a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>life<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of its<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>own, multiplying<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> without<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>enabling<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>legislation.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Yet<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>clear<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>record,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>main<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>target<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>this<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:101%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> surveillance<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>brown. Somehow,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>cameras,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>phone<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>data<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>collection, drones,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Fusion<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Centers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>spy networks<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>haven’t<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>been<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>able<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>detect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>faces<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>or prevent<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>amateur<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>attacks,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>one<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Dylann<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Roof, announced<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>six<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>months<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>advance.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.7pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Fund</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.05pt;">i</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">n</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">g<span
style="letter-spacing:1.1pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">M</span><span
style="letter-spacing: .05pt">ilit</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ar</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">za</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">ti</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">o</span>n<span
style="letter-spacing:1.55pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">an</span>d<span
style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">P</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">o</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">liti</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ca</span>l<span
style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">C</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">l</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">ou</span>t<span
style="letter-spacing:.75pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">o</span>f<span
style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">h</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt; mso-font-width:102%">P</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width: 102%">o</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-font-width:102%">li</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width:102%">c</span><span
style="mso-font-width: 102%">e</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
13pt; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:6.7pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:none;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>National<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Rifle<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Association,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Monsanto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>controlled<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>by the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Koch brothers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>effectively<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>pressure<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>state<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>legislatures<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>for law-and-order<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>legislation and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>funding.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>same<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>defense<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>contractors<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>whose<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>lobbyists<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>successfully<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>gorged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>industrial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>complex<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>promoted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>war<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>abroad<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>expanded<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>realm<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>feed the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>militarization<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>of domestic<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>police.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.7pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:8.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Lobbyists<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>representing<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>officers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>keep<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>relatively<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>lower<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>profile,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>but<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>come<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>out in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>force<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>expand<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>budgets,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>various<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“Bills<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Officers’<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>Rights”,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>warrantless
wiretaps,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>of drones<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>oppose<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>drug reform<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>any<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>encroachment<span
style="letter-spacing: -.65pt"> </span>on their authority<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>or impunity.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>In addition<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>millions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>may<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>spend,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>combination<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of the white<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>public<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>respect,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>reverence,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>command<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>media<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>their “expertise”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>lawmakers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>depend<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>upon, give<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>outsized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>influence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:17.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
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src="cid:part9.06020008.03010105@freedomarchives.org"
v:shapes="_x0000_s1031" height="20" width="2"></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>National<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Association<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of Police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>(NAPO) lists<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>126 member
organizations.<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>powerful<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>New<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>York City<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>Benevolent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Association<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>number of others<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>do not<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>appear<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>list.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>International<span
style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>Union<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Associations<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>(which is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>member<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>AFL-CIO)(AFL-CIO),<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>National<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Fraternal<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Order<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of Police,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the National<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Benevolent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Association<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"></span><span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">—</span>each<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>own local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>state<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>affiliates<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black; letter-spacing:-.1pt">—</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black">also<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>join<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>lobby.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>websites<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>feature<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>several<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>themes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>echoed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>corporate<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 101%; color: black;">
media:<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>(1)
Police<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>heroic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>public<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>servants<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who never<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>stray<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>duty<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>protect citizens<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>criminals<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>terrorists<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>uphold<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>law<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>order;<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>(2) Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>work is extremely<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>dangerous<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>requires<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>unconditional<span
style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>public,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>political<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>financial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>support.<o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]--></p>
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style="margin-top:.6pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:18.4pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Generally<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>message<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>prevailed.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>After<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>barrage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of negative<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>publicity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the progressive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>press<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>exposing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of lethal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>excessive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>scores<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of cities,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a national<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Gallup<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Poll<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>released<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>June<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>19 found that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>only<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>18 percent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>U.S.<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> expressed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>“little<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>or no confidence”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;position:relative;top:-5.0pt;
mso-text-raise:5.0pt">4<span style="letter-spacing:1.15pt">
</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>34,500 member<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>New<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>York City<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Department----<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>which<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>former<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Mayor<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Bloomberg<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>bragged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>7</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;position:relative;top:-5.0pt;
mso-text-raise:5.0pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt">
</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">largest army<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>world<span
style="letter-spacing:2.85pt"> </span>– maintained<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>public<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>support<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>after<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>staged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>coup-like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>work refusal and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>openly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>expressed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>contempt<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of New<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>York and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Mayor.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>A June<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>25 editorial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Benevolent<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>officers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for “community
policing<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>fight<span
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Their<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>both<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>reflect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>reinforce<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>political<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>power<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of police.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Law<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>enforcement
budgets<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>receive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>money<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>multiplicity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of sources<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>which<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>hides<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>magnitude<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>of their resources.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>A former<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Congressional<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>aid<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>estimated<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>when<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>agencies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span><span
style="mso-font-width:99%">are combine</span>d with<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>state<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>agencies,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>annual<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>total<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>comes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>$266.8 billion<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>or $850 per<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>person<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>per<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>year<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>United<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>States.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>This<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>excludes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>billions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for Homeland
Security,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>additional<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>$72.2 billion<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>year<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for national<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>intelligence. Then<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>there’s<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>unaccounted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>billions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Department<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of Defense,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>Justice
Department,<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>others<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>distribute<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>name<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of homeland
security.<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>In
2012 </span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:99%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:blue">Stephan<span
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New Roman",serif; color:blue;letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span
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line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">wrote<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>money<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>spent<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>arming</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span><span
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Roman",serif;color:#222222"> local<span
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style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>since<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">/</span>11<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>could<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>have<span
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Roman",serif;color:#00000A; letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span
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style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>too,”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>suggested.</span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font><!--[endif]-->
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:black">In May,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>typical<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>fanfare,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>President<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Obama<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>announced<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>executive<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>order<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>which,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>he claimed,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>would<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>improve<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>public<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>safety<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>restore<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>trust<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>places<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Ferguson. Executive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Order<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>13688 would,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>promised,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>restrict<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>departments’<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of tank-like
armored<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>vehicles<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>move<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>on tracks<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
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style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>gear<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>that<span
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#262626">can<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>sometimes give<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>feeling<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>there's<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>occupying<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>that,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>for decades,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>occupied<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>communities<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Black</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#262626">citizens.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>However,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>given<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Obama’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>logic,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>details<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of his<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Order<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>reveal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>leaves</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:#262626"> the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>billions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of dollars<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>worth<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>hardware<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>already<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>been<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>distributed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>in place<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>future<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>“restrictions”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>full<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of loopholes.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Moreover,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>there<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>person<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>applied<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>for<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a spot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Michigan<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>State<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Academy. The<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>top<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>brass are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>recruiting<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>400 new<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>troopers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>believe<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>vets<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span><i><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> right<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>stuff.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>"I<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>think<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>they're<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>right,"<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Grabow<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>said.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>"We<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>training….<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>We<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>know<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>how<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to dress.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>We<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>know<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>how<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>do things<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>stressful<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>situations.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>A<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>lot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>us combat<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>vets<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>been there<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and done<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that,"<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span></span></i><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue">Fox News,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>March<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>19, 2012</span></u><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.8pt;margin-right:24.35pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Grabow<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>one<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of thousands<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>of U.S. veterans<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>who have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>traded<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>army<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>dog tags<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>for police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>badges.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>joined<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>by an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>uncountable<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>number<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of recruits<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>white supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>individuals<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>who believe<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>crusading<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>white supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>mission<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>armies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of U.S. Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">This<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>third<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:blue">three</span></u><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: black;">-part<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: blue;">series</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:blue;letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>investigates<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>how the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>extrajudicial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>killing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>tightly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>woven<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>into<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>history,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>hegemonic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>ideology<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>institutions<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that constitute<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>U.S.A. Our aim<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>contribute<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>urgent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>effort<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>move<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>conversation on
police<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>“reform”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>strategy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>for ending<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>systemic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>war<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>on Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>(aka “Operation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Storm”).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">W</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.1pt;">ha</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black;">t<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt"> </span><span
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style="letter-spacing: .05pt;mso-font-width:102%">l</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width: 102%">ag</span><span
style="mso-font-width:102%">?</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
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style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>answer<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>both.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>22 blog<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Dylann<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Roof’s objective<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>take<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>over HIS country<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>rapists<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>criminals<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>ideologically<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>consistent<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the ideology<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of U</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(50, 197, 40);">.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">S</span><span
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#373737">“The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>irrational,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>violence-prone<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>racialized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>“other”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>occupies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>a permanent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>space<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#373737">consciousness<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>so many<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>U.S., which<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>why<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>has been<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>so easy<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>mobilize<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>public support<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>for<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>U.S. military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>interventions<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>and campaigns<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>political<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>subversion,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Iraq to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Venezuela.”</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:12.65pt;margin-bottom:
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Too<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>often,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>affinity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>between<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>followers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of anti-Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>groups, veterans<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>of foreign<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>wars and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>than<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>ideological.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Since<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Charleston<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>massacre<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>last<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>month<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the internet<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:blue">reposted</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:blue;letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">a<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>flurry<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of exposés.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>feature<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>websites<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“Stormfront”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>with<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> 300,000 registered<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>subscribers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hundreds<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>fascist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>organizations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>encourage their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>members<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>enlist<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>U.S. Armed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>Forces<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>departments.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>At<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>same time,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“extremists”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>actively<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>recruit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>inside<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>these<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:8.05pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">White<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>supremacy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>chronic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>deeply<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>rooted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>Army<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>its<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>mission.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the Department<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of Homeland<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>issued<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue">short<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>report</span></u><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue; letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: black;">in<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>2009 that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>pointed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>out<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>how the return<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>veterans<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>combat<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>correlates<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>closely<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>rise<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Klan membership.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>only<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>tip<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>iceberg.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Nevertheless,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>Fox News<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>horde<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of politicians<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>denounced<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Report.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Homeland<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Security<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>deleted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>its<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>website<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the unit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>investigating<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>domestic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>terrorism<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>sharply<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>reduced.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Yet<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>there<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>least<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>2.4 million<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>veterans<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>wars<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Iraq<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Afghanistan.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>if<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>only<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>small<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>percentage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of them<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>continue<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>wage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>conscious<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>war<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>against<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of color<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>home,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“service<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and heroism”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of soldiers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>returning<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>battles<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>US Empire<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>permeate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Zeitgeist of U.S.
society.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>governments<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>give<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>incentives<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>departments<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>who hire<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>veterans.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>A website<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>International<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Association<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>of Chiefs<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>features<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>resources,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>including guides<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>on how to<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>market<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>recruit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>veterans<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>departments.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Office<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of Community<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Oriented<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Policing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>DOJ has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>also<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>set<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>up a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>program,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>“Vets<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Cops”,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to encourage<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>law<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>enforcement<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>agencies<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hire<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>veterans.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>It<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>features<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>available<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>grants,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>toolkits and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>resources.<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>departments<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>actively<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>recruit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>veterans,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>or without<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>grants<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>federal<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>government,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>give<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>veterans<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>extra<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>points<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>hiring process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
10.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Look</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.05pt;">i</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">n</span></b><b><span
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style="margin-top:.95pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
13pt; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.15pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:99%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>growing<span
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style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 99%; color: blue;">list</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue;letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:99%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:black">of refusals<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by local<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>district<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>attorneys<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>is<span
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style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Attorney<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>General<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Supreme<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>slower<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>coming<span
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style="mso-font-width:99%">i</span>n April<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>2015, the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></span><i><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:99%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:blue">New<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>York<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Times</span></u></i><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:99%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:blue;letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:99%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">documented<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 99%; color: rgb(51, 51,
51);">At<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 99%; color: black;">Supreme<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Court</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 99%; color: rgb(51, 51,
51);">,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>where<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the limits<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>of police power<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>established,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>Mr.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Holder’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Justice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Department<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>has supported<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>police officers<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span><u>every<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>time</u><span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>excessive-force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>case<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>made<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>its way<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to arguments.”</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 99%; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.8pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">A consistent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>line<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of Supreme<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Court<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>precedents<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>set<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>reflect<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>prevailing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>political power<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>expressed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>by the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>U.S. Attorney<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>General,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Department<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of Justice<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>their regional<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>appointees.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>Since<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>1989, in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Graham<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>v Connor, the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Supreme<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>legalized<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>whenever<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>judged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>“reasonable”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><u>point<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of view<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of the</u> <u>officer<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>scene</u>.<span
style="letter-spacing:2.8pt"> </span>In recent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>years,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue">raft<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of Supreme<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>rulings</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue; letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; color:black">have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>enhanced<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>discretion.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>For example,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>May<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2014, Plumhoff<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>v. Rickford,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>ruled<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>could<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>easily<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>justify<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>shooting-to-kill<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>“fleeing”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>driver.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:5.4pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Families<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>protesters<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>seeking<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“justice”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>for Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>killed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>police,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>security guards<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vigilantes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>often<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>place<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>hope<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Department<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>of Justice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>(DOJ). In early May<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2015, some<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>protesters<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of Freddie<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Gray’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>killing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>celebrated<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>when<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>they<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>heard<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the Department<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of Justice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>had<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>opened<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>investigation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>into<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Baltimore<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Department.
However,<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>review<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>outcomes<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of DOJ
investigations<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>indicates<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>DOJ is
understaffed,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>often<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>lacks<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>subpoena<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>power,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>limited<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>enforcement<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>power,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>most importantly,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>lacks<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>political<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>will<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>challenge<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>own commitment<span
style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>settler<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>colonial tradition,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>entrenched<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>power<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>unions,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>pro-police<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>politicians<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>media.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:9.7pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: black;">Since<span style="letter-spacing:
-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>DOJ’s
first<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>investigation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>1997, it<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>has<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>reviewed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>65 departments--<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>including
Pittsburgh,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Los<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Angeles,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Metropolitan<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>DC,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Cincinnati,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>Detroit,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Oakland,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>New<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Orleans (two<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>times),<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>Portland,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Seattle,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Las<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Vegas,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Philadelphia,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>Miami<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>(two<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>times)<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>most recently<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Cleveland<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>(two<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>times),<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Ferguson<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Baltimore.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>With<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>some<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>cities,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>like<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Los Angeles,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Oakland,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Detroit,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>DOJ investigations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>drag<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>on for more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>than<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>decade.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Finally<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a consent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>decree<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>negotiated,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>departments<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>commit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>cosmetic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>changes,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>despite<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>a flurry<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of media<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>publicity<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>threat<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>enforcement,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>records<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>show that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>police departments<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>go back<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>business<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>usual.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>DOJ’s failure<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>reform<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>or protect<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of Cleveland<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“systemic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>excessive and<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>deadly<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>force<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by police”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>significant<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>case<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>study.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>In 2004, the<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>DOJ completed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>a<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> four-year<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>investigation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Cleveland<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Police<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Department’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>excessive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and discriminatory<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>use<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of force.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>out-of-court<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>settlement,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>included<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>prohibition<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>against<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> officers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>firing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>at<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>fleeing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>vehicles<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>unless<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>someone’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>life<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>danger.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Yet<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>December<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> 2012, some<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>62 of Cleveland’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>squad<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>cars<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>joined<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>chase<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>couple<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>whose<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>only “crime”<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>seemed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>be<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>their<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>car<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>backfired.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>Community<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>members<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>likened<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>frenzied pursuit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>lynch<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>mob.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>In the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>end,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Timothy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Russell<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Melissa<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Williams<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>died<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a barrage<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of 137 bullets.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Community<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>outcry<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>pressured<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>DOJ to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>open<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>another
investigation.<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>It<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>didn’t<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>take<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>long<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>for investigators<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>find<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>systemic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>discriminatory
problems<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>aspects<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>department’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>structure.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Nevertheless,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>City<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>received<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>a DOJ grant<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for $1.25 million<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hire<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>10 new<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>officers<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>another<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>million<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for “crime
prevention”.<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>following<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>year,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>just<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>before<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>then<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Attorney<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>General<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Holder<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>formally </span><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:blue">released<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>scathing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>report</span></u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue;letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:black">that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>exposed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Department’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>“systemic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>deficiencies”,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the DOJ granted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>them<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>another<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>$1.9 million<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>hire<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>15 new<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>officers.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>In November<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>2014, they
summarily<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>executed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>12-year<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>old<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Tamir<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Rice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>played<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>on a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>swing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>toy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>gun.<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.7pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.35pt;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; color: black;">Then,<span style="letter-spacing:
-.2pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>May<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2015, Officer<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>Michael<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Brelo<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>acquitted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of voluntary<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>manslaughter.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>He was<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>cop<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>who, in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>December<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>2012, had<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>climbed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>hood of Timothy<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Russell’s crashed<span
style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>car<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>fired<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>15 shots,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>point<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>blank<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>into<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>motionless<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>couple.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>These<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>details<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>lead<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>inevitable<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>conclusion<span
style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>rather<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>than<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>enforce<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>rights,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>DOJ<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"></span><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> investigations<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>serve<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>pacification<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>programs<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>placate<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>besieged<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>communities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.9pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
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exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.0pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">B</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.1pt;">u</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">il</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.15pt;">d</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">i</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; letter-spacing:
0.15pt;">n</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
color: black;">g<span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">R</span><span
style="letter-spacing: .1pt">es</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">i</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">s</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt">t</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">a</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">n</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">c</span>e<span
style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt">a</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt">n</span>d<span
style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt; mso-font-width:102%">So</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-font-width: 102%">li</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.15pt;mso-font-width:102%">d</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-font-width:102%">ar</span><span
style="letter-spacing:.05pt;mso-font-width:102%">it</span><span
style="mso-font-width:102%">y</span></span></b><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.45pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
13pt; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.4pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">Galvanized<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>communities<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>streets<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of Ferguson<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Baltimore,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>along<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the slow<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>boil<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>communities<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>across<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>country,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>have<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>finally<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>broken<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>through the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>“myth<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>post-racial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>America.”<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>challenging<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>complacency<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>denial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>by the majority<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>They<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>are<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>forcing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>national<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>conversation<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>about<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>racism.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Will<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that conversation<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>lead<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>an<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>end<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>war<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>on Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people?<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>answer<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>depends<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>on many complicated<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>conditions<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>that<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>cannot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>be<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>predicted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>apart<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>vision<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>gained<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>from<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a protracted<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>struggle<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>led<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by Black<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="margin-top:.7pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:6.35pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:100%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12pt; line-height: 100%; color: black;">Yet,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>implications<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of our study<span
style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>do suggest<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>need<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for certain<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>strategic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>assumptions. First,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>body cameras,<span
style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>improved<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>training,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>reduced<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>hardware<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>other<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>“reforms” are<span
style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>cosmetic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>cannot<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>change<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>basic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>state-sponsored,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>violent<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span></span><u><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: blue;">mission</span></u><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:blue; letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%; color: black;">of
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>police.<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> Second,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>reliance<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>on the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Judicial<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>System<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>for substantive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>justice<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>(or even<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>revenge)<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>will<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>lead to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>community<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>pacification<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>eventual<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>frustration.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>Third,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>no president<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>or politician<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> whose<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>election<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>depends<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>on pleasing<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>captains<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of financial<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>industry<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>will seriously<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>commit<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>ending<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Operatio <span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"></span>Ghetto<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Storm<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>any<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>more<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>than<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>she<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>or he<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>will<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>end<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the U.S. Empire’s<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>military<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>interventions<span
style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>around<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>world.<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Fourth,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>given<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>deep<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>roots<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> pervasive<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>control<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of the<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>white<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>supremacist<span
style="letter-spacing: -.5pt"> </span>hegemonic<span
style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>narrative,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>priority<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>is<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>educate<o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:100%;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"> and<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>organize<span
style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>masses<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of people,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>block-by-block.<span
style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>The<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>movement<span
style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>must<span
style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>be<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>capable<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of sustaining<span
style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>struggle<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>for all<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>oppressed<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>communities<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>become<span
style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>self-determining<span
style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>with<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>full human<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>rights<span
style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>life,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>housing,<span
style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>health,<span
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