15 Quotes by Paul Butler


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    It's business as usual at the American embassy, which means busy, ... Then, in the blink of an eye, everything changed.

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    A chokehold is a process of coercing submission that is self-reinforcing. A chokehold justifies additional pressure on the body because the body does not come into compliance, but the body cannot come into compliance because of the vise grip that is on it. This is the black experience in the United States. This is how the process of law and order pushes African American men into the criminal system. This is how the system is broke on purpose.

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    If the police patrolled white communities with the same violence that they patrol poor black neighborhoods, there would be a revolution.

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    As we will see, the crisis in law and order in the United States stems from police work itself rather than from individual cops.

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