In Order to End Police Brutality, We Need to End the Police

In Order to End Police Brutality, We Need to End the Police

In Order to End Police Brutality, We Need to End the Police

Activists and organizers gathered at the Schomburg Center to interrogate the current conditions of American policing.

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The Nation’s Mychal Denzel Smith moderated a panel at the Schomburg Center last Wednesday entitled “American Policing: Lessons on Resistance,” featuring the voices of activists and organizers Cherrell Brown, Ashley Yates, Phillip Agnew, and Dante Barry.

He began the event by making his intentions clear. “I don’t want anyone in this room to mistake me for an objective or impartial journalist moderator. I have marched with, organized with, and written about everyone on this stage. I feel as much a part of the movement as I do a reporter of it. I have an agenda…we need to abolish the pillars of white supremacy and I think the police is one of those.”

Cole Delbyck

 

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