This is your periodic reminder that policing in the United States began as slave patrols and hasn't moved particularly far from its origins in the hundreds of years since.
How ICE is acting now is yet another illustration of the fact that the war we're fighting isn't new, it's just the latest flare-up of the Civil War that never ended.
#politics #USPol #ACAB
Ref: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing
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