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Best of: Imagine a future with no police

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Abolition Going to Be Overwhelming?

I think what gives me a lot of inspiration is to know that there are so many movements in which the impossible seemed impossible. What people are saying, we need to abolish the police. That's what I used to feel about with climate change. And so it absolutely is going to feel overwhelming. There are abolitionists and insurrectionists who fought to enslave who never got to be free,. Who never got to experience it. So there's that the part where I am a bit curious, pessimistic, or I'm just wondering if I'm like, wow, will this manifest?"

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