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anonymouspoliticker t1_j65h7l0 wrote

Reply to comment by slumvillain in Men gathered around sign reading “Police.. We need your protection... not your harassment, Garfield Teen Organization,” on Columbo Avenue, Garfield: April, 1968: photograph by charles "teenie" Harris. by Yinzerman1992

Since when? 1968? I would bet neither of us were able to experience police back then, but by all accounts things are much better than they were during the Civil Rights Era. To suggest otherwise really undermines the sacrifice and brutality civil rights leaders like MLK, John Lewis, and countless others went through. Even with improvement over the past 50 years, accountability is not full and things aren't perfect - neither here in Pittsburgh nor around the nation - but things have changed

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