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In Ferguson the violence of the state created the violence of the street | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian.

…the police have come too late to the notion that they are there to “protect” lives. “The law,” wrote James Baldwin, “is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.” Those who call for law and order now must understand that there is no order because men with badges have been acting lawlessly.