Police Are Using Tragedies in Dallas and Orlando to Demand More Militarized Weapons

‘Police killings of black people, which last year outnumbered lynchings of African Americans during the worst year of Jim Crow, have touched off two years of nationwide protests for racial justice that have forced police brutality into the global spotlight. Yet even as police violence is more visible, these same forces are continuing to kill, as underscored by the recent deadly police shootings of black men Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
Now, amid a fresh nationwide resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests, these same police departments are invoking the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse LGBTQ nightclub and the killing of five Dallas police officers to ramp up the militarization of their forces and repress demonstrations.’
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