There is a long history of police violence that has led up to our current moment of outrage. Far from "spontaneous" the protests and outrage boiling over after the Ferguson and Eric Garner decisions can be seen as the next step in an ongoing movement demanding the abolition of police brutality and state violence against the people.
This morning we are speaking with Shahid Buttar, Executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
Buttar said today: "The movement to end police murder with impunity is not asking for solutions. It is demanding them, and the president's body camera proposal does not even begin to answer the call. We will continue to see seemingly spontaneous mass demonstrations all across the country going forward, because the evasion of justice by the murderers of Eric Garner proves what Americans of color have long known: police can get away with anything, even murdering someone, in broad daylight, on videotape, without provocation, using illegal force methods. This movement will stop at nothing less than the end of police brutality, profiling, militarization, and mass incarceration."
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