A Decade Of Dominion: How U.S. Policing Restricted Black Life Over The Past 10 Years

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Monday, December 30, 2019

December 30, 2019 - From Huffpost

The decade between 2010 and 2020 was a clarifying decade in terms of the United States of America’s expectations for Black people.

Taken together, if Black people were to avoid all of the activities that white people now tell us to avoid for our own safety, the resulting condition would likely and coincidentally — or not — look a lot like slavery: We would be incapable of walking in our own neighborhoods, sitting in our own homes, caring for our own children, swimming, sitting in a classroom, playing with toys, shopping, working as a police informant, selling things, playing video games, running or driving.

Throughout the decade, news coverage often probed into the lives of those harmed while doing these things, but stories about the people who enforce those rigid stipulations were harder to come across.

Rarely were those people required to express in words their precise expectations for how Black people ought to live. Instead, they often opted for euphemisms about the need to respect or comply law enforcement. 

But the effect of their demands was a strict and particular code of conduct for Black people.

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