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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.
Jul 14, 2017 · Butler’s bold call-to-action starts with the need to abolish the principle known as The Chokehold, which is the popular assumption that all black men are dangerous, and must therefore be subject...
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Oct 16, 2017 · But in terms of the concerns that I identify in Chokehold about violence, against the erosion of civil liberties, about how black men don’t live in a free country, black cops don’t make a...
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...
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.
May 22, 2023 · The Marine veteran who held an unhoused Black man in a deadly chokehold aboard a New York City subway train earlier this month defended his actions and said in an interview with the New York...
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,...
