1335: Uprisings and repression in Detroit / Matthew D. Lassiter
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🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I certainly hope we don't have to pay any rights |
| 0:09.6 | I certainly hope we don't have to pay any rights names and I just. You're welcome Neil. The This is hell. |
| 0:35.0 | live from the United States where the law is far too off in the crime. |
| 0:44.4 | This is hell today's protests against racialized police brutality |
| 0:50.4 | in the United States are completely unprecedented. |
| 0:54.3 | Never before in the history of this country as the public rose up against what they saw |
| 0:58.3 | is systemic, even institutional racialized violence perpetuated by law enforcement. |
| 1:05.0 | That is, unless you count the uprisings |
| 1:07.3 | against racialized police violence |
| 1:08.7 | that occurred in the late 1950s |
| 1:11.2 | that continued to the early 60s and exploded in the uprisings that took place across. the late |
| 1:13.4 | in the uprisings that took place across the United States in the long hot |
| 1:16.9 | summer of 1967. Yes, the so-called riots of |
| 1:21.0 | 1967 were very much fueled by ongoing police violence |
| 1:24.4 | that was getting worse and worse as the civil rights movement gained more and more |
| 1:28.8 | steam and power. Police like those in Detroit had essentially been given a license to kill |
| 1:34.4 | anyone they suspected of having been involved in a crime and was fleeing the |
| 1:38.3 | scene armed or not without any evidence of them actually being involved in that crime or not. This meant that a lot of especially young black men were being |
| 1:45.0 | especially young black men were being murdered by police, police who had |
| 1:49.4 | often shot the unarmed fleeing suspect in the back. A suspect it was later determined was not actually |
| 1:55.0 | involved in any crime whatsoever. And the police were able to do it with impunity without any fear |
| 2:00.8 | of ever getting caught because their own department was telling them, |
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