When law enforcement surges against protesters, it produces a scene recognizable to most Americans: clouds of tear gas, swinging batons and police dogs lunging as people are knocked down. It could be anywhere. In South Minneapolis today. In Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The people and causes are different, but the reason is the same — when some citizens demand accountability, they are met instead with violence. The government is most unrestrained toward those it feels least obligated to protect.
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