I want to say something about historic analogies... In some important ways what we see now is *worse* than lynching. Because it isn't a mob that engages in extra-legal violence. It is an agent of the state, with the authority of the state, killing people without any process...

No due process. No protection of the right to life and liberty. In earlier generations sheriffs wore hoods to hide their involvement in extra-legal racist killing... Now we have a broad daylight reality.

Racist violence has been further bureaucratized in ways that make it increasingly more difficult to disrupt. So, we have to be really careful with using a terrible past as a metaphor. This terrible present is of the economic, institutional and political now.

AND we have states that spend millions defending the impunity of their actors. The Chauvin trial is an exception to the general rule...

If you look at African American newspapers from the very early 20th century, there is an ongoing discussion about the problems with policing. Literally nonstop 100 plus year problem...

And we must always attend to the shifting structures of domination. Because beyond words we have to organize around those structures. We have to be able to engage in diagnostics.