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Why I Have Come to Support Defunding the Police
By Sharon Brous — 2020
The last few weeks have made it impossible to hide from the truth that Black and white people have fundamentally different experiences with law enforcement in this country.
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Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection.
