When we saw the video of George Floyd's killing, something in Black folk snapped. We realized, again, that nothing we have done has stopped the cops from taking our lives. In that moment it all came crashing down on us: Cops are the state. Cops are the white society that see us as animals. Cops are judge and jury and may execute us at will. Thus we are all vulnerable.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 95
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