id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-329310-8viyz7me Schwartz, Stephan A. Police Brutality and Racism in America 2020-07-02 .txt text/plain 2692 152 73 And yet here I sit, looking day after day at the searing television images of the new civil rights demonstrations, watching videos of white policemen murdering Black men for no reason except they could, thinking they would get away with it, as they had so often in the past. In Norway, Iceland, New Zealand, Britain, and Ireland, police officers generally do not carry firearms." 4 Intermixed with racial brutality on the part of the law enforcement system in the U.S. is the gross misuse of the American military against the American people they are sworn to protect. The Washington Post looked into this issue and tuned the data even finer: "Although half of the people shot and killed by police are white, black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. ./cache/cord-329310-8viyz7me.txt ./txt/cord-329310-8viyz7me.txt