Curtailing the Enforcers of White Supremacy

ACLU of Pennsylvania
3 min readJun 5, 2020

By Reggie Shuford, Executive Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania

America is in a historic moment. The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis has blown the lid off of 400 years of white supremacy on American soil. The police are agents of a government that has historically kept Black folks down, hellbent on relegating us to second-class citizenship in any and all areas of…

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