The use of excessive force by the police underscored the - TopicsExpress



          

The use of excessive force by the police underscored the determination to remind blacks at every opportunity of their vulnerability and helplessness. If the police sometimes singled out young blacks for punishment, it was a way to check their tendency toward impudence, to restrain their restlessness and keep them in their place...The violence meted out by the police and sheriffs was no aberration but stemmed from ideological conviction -- the still commonly held...belief that blacks understood only force, that they worked and behaved best under the threat of the lash and that their uncontrolled impulses required a special quality of discipline...A Richmond, Virginia black newspaper suggested that blacks regarded the local police with a distrust bordering on hatred, and that police officers reciprocated such feelings with compound interest.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:18:19 +0000

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