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Police Violence in the US: How Did We Get Here?

Although the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade triggered a recent wave of Black-led urban uprisings against racist police brutality, these uprisings, and the police repression that has been unleashed in response, are not unique to this moment. Drawing on a long legacy of abolitionist thought, the uprisings have also helped to amplify a robust conversation about defunding and abolishing police. This has led many scholars and activists working in policing to articulate the historic futility of reform and find inspiration from the past on non-punitive ways of organizing society. This is first installment of The Metropole's three roundtables on racist police violence, the Spring 2020 uprisings, and police abolition, hosted and moderated by PhD Candidate Charlotte Rosen and Dr. Matthew Guariglia. Panelists Dr. Ashley Howard, Dr. Toussaint Losier, Dr. Simon Balto, and Dr. Anne Gray Fischer discuss the long history of racist police violence in the United States and how this history can inform contemporary social movements and organizing against racial state violence on the ground. To read more on this topic, visit https://themetropole.blog