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Dreadful symmetry: kill boxes, racism and US sovereign power in the digital age

Nearly all of the killings and excuses for killings carry this mark of the “pre-insurgent”. All the time we hear, “we thought he was reaching for a gun”.

By Neal Curtis
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March 28, 2018, New York: protests over the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in Sacramento, California. Erik McGregor/Press Association. All rights reserved.I started writing this just as the funeral for Stephon Clark was taking place in Sacramento. Clark was the latest in a very long line of unarmed African Americans summarily killed by police in the US.

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