In wake of the current national protests against police brutality, Attorney General Bill Bar—in a June 7th “Face the Nation” interview—doesn’t believe there is systemic racism in policing. C2Change thinks the top law enforcement officer of our nation needs a history lesson; starting with the some of the most significant police fueled riots over a course of 300+ years from our country’s own history pages.
The Face the Nation Interview:
“I think there’s racism in the United States,” AG Bill Barr tells @margbrennan.
“But I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist. https://t.co/dq311AV3bv pic.twitter.com/H2W54re4tt
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 7, 2020
Police Fueled Riots — 316 years of systemic racism in policing timeline:
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- 1866 Memphis Race Riot
- 1866 New Orleans Race Riot
- 1900 New York City Race Riot
- 1919 Chicago Race Riot
- 1919 Red Summer Race Riots
- 1919 Washington
- 1935 Harlem Race Riot
- 1943 Detroit Race Riot
- 1964 Chicago (Dixmoor) Riots
- 1964 Jersey City Uprising
- 1964 Philadelphia Race Riots
- 1965 Watts Rebellion
- 1966 Atlanta (Summerhill) Riot
- 1966 Chicago Riot
- 1967 Detroit Race Riot
- 1967 Newark Riots
- 1969 Camden Riots
- 1970 Jackson State College Killings
- 1971 Camden Riots
- AG Bill Barr
- Arthur McDuffie
- Attorney General William Barr
- BlackPast.org
- DC. Race Riot
- discriminatory policing
- East St. Louis Race Riot
- Eric Garner
- Face the Nation
- Freddie Gray
- George Floyd
- Houston Mutiny & Race Riot
- Keith Scott Riots
- Liberty City Riots
- Marg Brennan
- Michael Brown
- Oscar Grant
- Philando Castile
- Police
- racism in policing
- Riots
- Rodney King
- San Francisco (Hunter's Point) Riot
- Slave Patrols
- South Carolina State University Massacre
- Stephon Clark
- systemic racism
- Texas State University Riot
- Timothy Thomas Riots
- Trayvon Martin
- Tyron Lewis Riots
- United States Attorney General
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