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End Police Brutality, Excessive Force and Overreach

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Rev. Cornell Lewis, Arrested for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience. Photo Courtesy Hartford Courant

Police have brutalized black and brown people as a means of consolidating and advancing white supremacy.

Every 28 hours a black person is killed by someone employed or protected by the U.S. government.

Television, the internet and social media are amplifying police abuse.  These practices are direct descendants of slaveholding, lynching, and the Jim and Jane Crow system. Policing historically enforces racist laws, policies and norms.  A massive prison industrial complex built on the warehousing and hyper-incarceration of black and brown people has evolved in Connecticut and the nation.  The prison industrial complex, like slavery, is an unjust system of concentrating profit and wealth in racist institutions by imprisoning black and brown people.

Lethal brutality cannot be a tool of democracy. And it should not be a weapon for Connecticut government or for the police.  

In Connecticut, one manifestation of unjust police practices is racial profiling.  A recent Central Connecticut State University study on racial disparities in traffic stops confirms that “it’s not about one officer.”

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