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    If you’re surprised by how the police are acting, you don’t understand US history | Malaika Jabali

    Policing in America was never created to protect and serve the masses. It can’t be reformed because it is designed for violence
    by Malaika Jabali Jun 05, 2020 3 minutes
    A man gets on his knees in front of police officers during a protest against the death of George Floyd, in St Louis, Missouri. Photograph: Lawrence Bryant/Reuters

    Amid worldwide protests against the police killing of George Floyd, activists around the US have raised demands for specific policy measures, such as . Justifying these demands are the images emerging from the protests, with police officers , protesters with pepper spray and . Local and state policing budgets have nearly , despite declining crime rates. Even people unfamiliar with the police and prison abolitionist movement are starting, rightly, to envision that public spending could be used in more socially

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