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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:

$On March 7, 1965, white police in Alabama beat hundreds of civil rights marchers—including fracturing the skull of civil rights icon John Lewis—as they walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on “Bloody Sunday.” The very next day, President Lyndon Johnson announced an unprecedented expansion of funding for U.S. police departments, including for “improved training of policemen.”8$