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Cops: how’d they come to repress protest so, and how can they be defunded (without using the word)

Paul Passavant, author of Policing Protest, explains how cops came to police protest so viciously. And Marisol Cantu and Shiva Mishek analyze the campaign to shift money out of policing and into social services in Richmond, California. (It helps to avoid the word “defund.”)

photo: Jesse Young via Unsplash

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