![]() ![]() Yet, “ anti-terrorist” legislation will only harm communities of color through the expansion of the police and surveillance state. We have already seen lenient sentencing for the insurrectionists and an arrest count less than ⅓ that of arrests made this summer in D.C. Law enforcement is, and always has been, the body that carries out the brute force of the state’s white supremacist violence. ![]() The NLG remains firm in our abolitionist principles, and last week further demonstrated that law enforcement not only stood down in the face of white, fascist insurrectionists, but actively aided their attempts to enter the Capitol to overturn the election. For this reason, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) demands that the political response to last week’s fascist mob looks beyond the Trump administration and enacts structural change, including an overhaul of the prison and policing systems, a firm condemnation and rejection of white supremacist ideologies, and the implementation of more progressive policies across the board. White supremacy, though mentioned in mainstream news media more frequently in the last year, is not remotely a new phenomenon-it was the ideology the United States was founded on and remains this government’s primary political underpinning, regardless of the political party in power. Contact: week’s white supremacist coup attempt facilitated by law enforcement makes clear that the path forward requires a serious reckoning with the conditions that caused this moment. ![]()
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