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Aug 10, 2017 · How does the chokehold, particularly as it responds to and controls black men, work? It operates via a two-step process. The chokehold begins by socially and legally construing black men, writ large, as inherently criminal, or at least as having a deeply rooted impulse for criminality.
Aug 11, 2017 · The author of the acclaimed Chokehold: Policing Black Men writes on how the system treats African Americans with contempt: ‘If police patrolled white areas as they do poor black neighborhoods...
Aug 11, 2017 · Stop-and-frisks are brutal assertions of police dominance on African American men, through sexual harassment, torture and even terrorism
Choke Hold affects Black men, who are portrayed as “thugs,” controlled as “thugs,” manhandled during the process of arrest, and perpetrators of violence who live out the Choke Hold within themselves. He identifies four “crises” with very different perspectives on the problem: 1. Black Male Behavior 2. Underenforcement of the Law 3.
Jun 1, 2018 · In his latest book, Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and current professor at Georgetown University, also uses the term ‘chokehold,’ but explores it through the lens of black men as a euphemism to describe the lethal effects of societal racism and how American inequality is imposed.
- Lee E. Ross
- 2018
Sep 18, 2018 · With the eloquence of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the persuasive research of Michelle Alexander, a former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt it. Cops, politicians,...
Feb 14, 2017 · He talks about his forthcoming book Chokehold: Policing Black Men, which comes out in May 2017. The addresses the laws and practices that Butler says treat black men differently than the rest...
