This needs to be put into context. Going back to the 1680 Insurrection Act in Virginia whereby any white man could stop and detain and punish any black person and where it was made illegal for black people (which in effect included Native Americans) to possess firearms. Policing of black slaves by white men became lawful and this formed …
This needs to be put into context. Going back to the 1680 Insurrection Act in Virginia whereby any white man could stop and detain and punish any black person and where it was made illegal for black people (which in effect included Native Americans) to possess firearms. Policing of black slaves by white men became lawful and this formed the basis for the state militia and later the Ku Klux Klan.
Part of the problem today is that we have racist police departments and a racist Federal Bureau of Investigation and so agents and officers use personal discretion as to who to investigate, who to attack, and who to kill. More blacks are shot and killed each day in the United States by police officers than the total number of people shot in the United Kingdom in a year.
This needs to be put into context. Going back to the 1680 Insurrection Act in Virginia whereby any white man could stop and detain and punish any black person and where it was made illegal for black people (which in effect included Native Americans) to possess firearms. Policing of black slaves by white men became lawful and this formed the basis for the state militia and later the Ku Klux Klan.
Part of the problem today is that we have racist police departments and a racist Federal Bureau of Investigation and so agents and officers use personal discretion as to who to investigate, who to attack, and who to kill. More blacks are shot and killed each day in the United States by police officers than the total number of people shot in the United Kingdom in a year.