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National Guardsmen questioning an African American man in Chicago, during the summer race riots of 1919.
Jun Fujita/Chicago History Museum/Getty ImagesBlack Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. In the wake of Derek Chauvin's conviction for the murder of George Floyd, it's a truth and a trauma many people in the US and around the world are again witnessing first hand. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries.
In this episode of NPR's Througline, the origins of policing in the United States and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.
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