I don't think I'm going to see the total eradication of pol… - Derecka Purnell

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I don't think I'm going to see the total eradication of police presence in my lifetime. I don't think my baby's going to see it in their lifetime. But what can happen in all of our lifetimes is the will and the commitment and the courage - right? - to have the courage to make sure that it does happen in the future.

Derecka Purnell

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is a human rights lawyer, author, abolitionist, and columnist living in the USA.

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writing, to me, is so important 'cause it allows me to think publicly about ideas that I'm working through as a lawyer or I'm working through as an organizer or as I'm working through as a parent, for example.

why all these killings happening in the first place? Why are people conditioned to kill each other? Why is it true in the United States but not true in other parts of the world?

The police can't fight patriarchy. They perpetuate it in so many circumstances.

I don't think I'm going to see the total eradication of police presence in my lifetime. I don't think my baby's going to see it in their lifetime. Bu… - Derecka Purnell

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