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‘One Cop Almost Down … A Million More Cops … To Go’: Rutgers Prof’s Hopes For the Future

Hank Berrien
‘One Cop Almost Down … A Million More Cops … To Go’: Rutgers Prof’s Hopes For the Future
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On Tuesday afternoon, the same day Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on three charges in the death of George Floyd, an assistant professor of journalism at Rutgers University tweeted out his hopes for the future, which included, “a million more cops … to go.”

Chenjerai Kumanyika, whose “research and teaching focus on the intersections of social justice and emerging media in the cultural and creative industries,” according to Rutgers, tweeted, “One cop almost down. A massive carceral system and a million other cops, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, misogyny, to go.”

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