(BALTIMORE – April 16, 2026) – The issue of police violence against Black people has been a central site for the struggle against the societal dehumanization of Black people. The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement published a report in 2012 that revealed that a Black person was killed once every 40 hours by police or someone acting in the capacity of law enforcement. A 2020 study from Harvard’s School of Public Health found that Black people are 3 times more likely to be killed by police. In Maryland, according to a 2015 report from the ACLU of Maryland, there were 109 people who were killed by police between 2010 and 2014, and 75% of them were Black (Black people only make up 31% of Maryland’s population). There is no credible refutation of the claim that Black people historically, and contemporarily, have been victims of ongoing violence from the institution of law enforcement. This is not a statement of liking or disliking individual police officers; it is an objective, social-scientific assessment of the relationship between the institution of law enforcement and the Black community. The analysis that emerges from mainstream social justice organizations is that this is the result of bias or racial discrimination, but this analysis is insufficient. The narrative of white police officers killing unarmed Black people is an easier narrative for a white liberal mainstream to be galvanized by, but this is an oversimplified frame. The dynamic that drives the violence that is brought to bear against Black people from law enforcement (and the entire criminal justice system) is the societal propaganda that has seared the notion of Black masculinity as inherently animalistic and criminal into the collective American consciousness. During the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion against white enslavers, the press characterized Turner and his comrades as savages for killing white people, which is absurd given the fact that the actual savages were the society of white people that normalized reducing Black people to chattel. The widely held notion that Black people are inherently animalistic and criminal provided the justification for chattel slavery and was essential to characterizing armed rebellion against being enslaved as an act of savagery. The first motion picture film produced in America, Birth of a Nation by DW Griffith, had a storyline that featured a Black man as a villain who was looking to rape white women. This aligns with the phenomenon of lynching, where Black men were often hanged as a result of accusations (which were most of the time false) of sexually assaulting white women. In a book called Brown in Baltimore by Howell Baum, he documents how Brown v. Board of Education was implemented in Baltimore. He reveals that on the eve of the implementation of desegregation in Baltimore, the school district received a flurry of letters from white parents expressing strong opposition to integrating public schools. Baum documents the fact that one of the most common explanations given by white parents in opposition to integration was the fear of Black boys…
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