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Capitalism, White Supremacy, Police Brutality: What A Tangle of Thorns? What a tangled web of thorns that is Policing and Prisons, Capitalism, and White. The concept of Policing came about in the 17th century—unsurprisingly—around the same time as Capitalism. In 2019 alone, American police shot and killed 1,310 civilians in the U.S. (source) In 2019, within the 485m² (1,255 km²) metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, police killed a record number of 1,814 people. Black Americans were close to three times more likely to die from police encounters than white Americans.via the TL;DR App
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