Defending Defunding—Budget Cuts, Community Control Key to Cop Problem
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Frank Chapman, Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, to talk about the decades-long struggle to give control of police departments to the communities they patrol, the history of the Black Panthers in the fight, and what the violent suppression of Black self-governance during Reconstruction tells us about the ruling class reaction to real movements for Black self-governance in the US.