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People Magazine’s Reality Check

This week I joined People magazine’s #RealityCheck  to chat about the new season of MTV Decoded and what we hope to accomplish by focusing on police violence. Check out two clips from the conversation with a link to the full episode!

Click here to watch the full interview on #RealityCheck

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MTV Decoded | The Racist Origins of Policing

If modern policing were to take a DNA test, it would come back 99%-100% racist. And thankfully, we don’t need anyone to spit in a tube to figure that out. We just need to take a look at history. This week ,we explore how slave patrols in the South, strikebreakers in the North and the Anti-Mexican Texas Rangers in the old west paved the way for the racist practices of modern policing.