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ACLU @ACLU

Local law enforcement was often complicit in the lynching of Black people, as @eji_org has shown. https://t.co/sMTxHalRoY — PolitiTweet.org

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Policing in America is entwined with slavery. Charleston, South Carolina was one of the first municipal police departments in America. It was an outgrowth of the slave patrols that chased down escapees and monitored the social lives of enslaved people in the city. — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1927, Owen Flemming refused to follow an overseer's command, and the overseer pulled a gun. Mr. Flemming grabbed the gun and shot in self-defense. When a mob arrived, the local sheriff told them, "I'm busy, just go ahead and lynch him" — and they did. — PolitiTweet.org

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