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Racism, police violence and capitalism
The role of the police cannot be separated from its central function of protecting wealth and privilege, ZOLTAN ZIGEDY explains

DONALD TRUMP chastising governors and mayors over their response to the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd was perversely appropriate.
While Trump is invoking the “law and order” mantra of racist politicians in his rant, the complicity of local and state authorities in police criminality cannot be denied.
Police violence against African-Americans is as old and persistent as the history of the first Africans brought to the New World as slaves.
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