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Decades of failed reforms allow continued police brutality and racism

  • Written by Stephen M. Underhill, Associate Professor of Communication, Marshall University
imageBlack Lives Matters murals on boarded-up businesses in New York City.AP Photo/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx

Police brutality has a long history of being protected, reinforced and even redoubled for more than a century in the U.S. through a combination of political expediency and racism.

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