TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Police violence and the built harm of structural racism JO - Lancet A1 - Boyd, Rhea W. SP - 258 EP - 259 VL - 392 IS - 10144 N2 -

Police killing black Americans is one of the oldest forms of structural racism in the USA. The act traces its roots to slavery. Yet it remains a tool for social control that violates black bodily autonomy, engenders racial inequality in access to public services, and re-inscribes the predominant racial order any time police indiscriminately and extrajudicially take a black life ...

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LA - en SN - 0140-6736 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31374-6 ID - ref1 ER -