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Colin Kaepernick Demands ‘Future Without The Terror Of Policing Or Prisons’ In Essay Series Debut

Emily Zanotti
Colin Kaepernick Demands ‘Future Without The Terror Of Policing Or Prisons’ In Essay Series Debut
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Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kicked off his “Kaepernick Publishing” essay series Tuesday with a missive describing a change of heart he’s experienced since holding his kneeling protests in 2017 and explaining that he’s now opposed to reforming law enforcement and would prefer a total “abolition” of police and prisons.

“Under the subheading title ‘F—k Reform,’ he wrote that his thinking ‘was fastened to a reformist framework,'” according to Fox News. “He admitted that he ‘missed the larger picture,'” where even major changes to policing would produce similar problems to those that, in Kaepernick’s mind, currently plague law enforcement.

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