As the world watched the armed deadly takeover of the Capitol on January 6, many of us struggled to define the political moment. An insurrection? An act of domestic terrorism? A coup? As military soldiers and police officers flooded D.C. in the name of national security, many commentators importantly noted that labeling the January 6 takeover as domestic terrorism risked increasing police powers that “inevitably get turned on communities of color, even if they [are] ostensibly aimed at White violence at first.”

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Vigilant Love is outraged by the countless murders of Black people in the United States and beyond. As a community organization, we see many ask “Why does this keep happening?” We, too, find ourselves lamenting the horror, wondering when –if–this will ever end…In order to envision the end of police violence, we have to first understand that these brutal deaths are tragedies we can expect to recur so long as a government built on genocide, slavery, and war is in power. 

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