Obama, for all his pious statements after Eric Garner and Tamir Rice and Michael Brown, has been behind funneling money to police departments for militarization. And that means the kind of weaponry and tactics that are used on the military battlefield.

Attorney Flint Taylor delivers a history lesson in racism, brutality and law enforcement.

Flint wrote the piece Blood On Their Hands: The Racist History of Modern Police Unions for In These Times.

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Flint Taylor

Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in Chicago.

Police forces have always pointed the weapons of war back at Americans.

Flint Taylor

Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement Bills / Maya Schenwar

Brandon Johnson Will Have to Beat Capital Strikes in Chicago / Kevin Young

Condemnation Nation

Coplovers Hit Back Against Reforms With Fearmongering / Katya Schwenk

Good Grief and Bad Grief, Charlie Brown!

Against the Gentrification myth / Leslie Kern

Monstrous Torture by the Depraved Police / Flint Taylor

Chicago's Housing Crisis / Mick Dumke

Fighting the torture machine: On the past and present of Chicago police violence.

Fighting police crime, and the city that covers it up.

Remembering the assassination of Fred Hampton, and the threat to Black liberation today.

The city won't reform the police. The city is the police.

Understanding the civil mechanisms of police impunity.

The Chicago police department won't fix the Chicago police department.

Uncovering Chicago police secrets with the man fighting Homan Square.

"This is what we'll do to you" - Jon Burge, Fred Hampton and the threat of police violence.