How did American police get so violent? The answer to that question goes back centuries, to the earliest days of this nation. On this special podcast miniseries hosts journalist, Robert Evans and rap artist, Propaganda (Jason Petty) draw a straight line from the darkest days of slavery, to the murder of George Floyd and the mass violence American police meted out to their citizens this summer.
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Introducing: 'Behind the Insurrections'
How The Police Declared War On All Of Us
How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier
How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture
The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan
How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich
Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing
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