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- Title
The Brazen Daylight Police Murder of George Floyd and The Racist Origin of American Policing.
- Authors
Al-Hashimi, Muhammad
- Abstract
The anti-Indigenous militias were designed to ensure the Indigenous nations' land's ongoing theft, forcibly removing Indigenous peoples from their lands, lands stretching from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans. Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz goes on to offer insight into the anti-Indigenous militias and their interface with slave patrols: By 1704, the South Carolina colonial government had codified slave patrols and embedded them within the already existing volunteer militias, whose principle [sic] role was to repel Native Americans whose land they had appropriated. Underneath this veneer of celebration and glorification is a very dark history: "Like slave patrols in the Deep South, the Texas Rangers - formed primarily to kill Comanches, eliminate Native communities, and control colonized Mexicans to take their land - also hunted down enslaved Africans escaping to freedom. 34 By Muhammad Al-Hashimi Senior Lecturer, Islamic Studies and Economics Euclid University The Brazen Daylight Police Murder of George Floyd and The Racist Origin of American Policing George Floyd, a 42-year-old African American man, and resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was apprehended on 25 May 2020 by four uniformed Minneapolis police for allegedly trying to make a purchase in a local store with a fake $20 bill.
- Subjects
GEORGE Floyd protests, 2020; KILLINGS by police; DISTRICT of Columbia v. Heller; BLACK Lives Matter movement; COPYRIGHT of periodicals
- Publication
Fourth World Journal, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 2, p34
- ISSN
1090-5251
- Publication type
Article