Book reading, on "Police Brutality"

Come to our book reading
and neighborhood discussion
It will be a discussion about our political world and current events.
May 17th at 7 pm,
at the South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St. Berkeley

and of how that relates to my book,

“Police Brutality”
by Steve Martinot

bring your experience, your stories, and your friends.
and I will give some reading from the book

There are three structures of policing in the US today.
1- Their brutality, as they permit it for themselves.
2- Their militarization, and their commanding officer paradigm;
3- The grammar of race; “race” not as a noun but as a verb

Brutality -- means treating people like things, exercising dehumanizing violence
Militarization -- means assuming a total commanding position and using military technology,
Race -- refers to what some people (white people) do to others, militarily and with brutality

All together, this gives us a description of US police culture today

How does this relate to the world?
Police use of dehumanizing violence (brutality) runs parallel to
international violence (war), as the US now governs its world.
The police gained the use of violence by oppressing the working classes,
And the US transformed (racialized) it through enslavement and Jim Crow
This ultimately gave the police greater power than their City Councils
They started killing in the streets.
At a rate of 1200 a year.

May 17th at 7 pm,
at the South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St. Berkeley

Steve Martinot PO Box 11842, Berkeley 94712 martinot4 [at] gmail.com