Understanding the Police State

 

The year 2020 brought to the national forefront concerns about police violence, abuse, and corruption. Hundreds-of-thousands of people took to the streets, in every state, to protest police misconduct following the death of George Perry Floyd Jr. at the hands of Minneapolis Police on May 25, 2020. But the death of George Floyd was not the first questionable death of someone at the hands of police. Just a few other deaths of unarmed people at the hands of police include:

John T. Williams – Aug 30, 2010
Dontre Hamilton – Apr 30, 2014
Michael Brown – Aug 9, 2014
Dante Parker – Aug 12, 2014
Tanisha Anderson – Nov 13, 2014
Tamir Rice – Nov 22, 2014
Akai Gurley – Nov 20, 2014
Eric Garner – Jul 17, 2014
Freddie Gray – April 19, 2015
Walter Scott – April 4, 2015
Brendon Glenn – May 5, 2015
Alton Sterling – July 5, 2016
Paul O’Neal – Jul 28, 2016
Manuel Ellis – Mar 3, 2020
Breonna Taylor – Mar 13, 2020

In addition to the deaths of so many people at the hands of police - nearly 1000 people per year - police militarization and the surveillance state pose a threat to the civil rights and liberties of every American.

Above are 12 books that help explain the Police State in America.