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“Police Indulged in Promiscuous Shooting” “Police Indulged in Promiscuous Shooting”
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“The Police of New York Make Too Free Use of Their Guns in Negro Districts” “The Police of New York Make Too Free Use of Their Guns in Negro Districts”
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Self-Protection and New Negro Community Politics Self-Protection and New Negro Community Politics
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“An Indoor Lynching, or Near-Lynching”: The Black Public Sphere and the Third Degree “An Indoor Lynching, or Near-Lynching”: The Black Public Sphere and the Third Degree
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“Why 3,000 Harlem Citizens Rebelled against the Authority of the Police Department” “Why 3,000 Harlem Citizens Rebelled against the Authority of the Police Department”
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The People “Will Soon Put a Stop to Police Brutality in Harlem” The People “Will Soon Put a Stop to Police Brutality in Harlem”
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Conclusion Conclusion
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5 “Demand the Dismissal of Policemen Who Abuse the Privileges of Their Uniform”: Racial Violence, Police Brutality, and Self-Protection
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Published:July 2015
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the range of strategies black New Yorkers used to defend themselves against white mob attacks and police malfeasance. Aspiring and elite blacks organized ad hoc associations and appealed to the authorities, the police commissioner, and the district attorney to investigate skirmishes and to fairly enforce the law regardless of the race of the culprit. Other blacks armed themselves for self-protection. These Harlemites had little faith that the New York Police Department would protect their rights. Collectively, these strategies of resistance reflected blacks' demands for the protection of their community rights, as well as the intraracial tensions that developed as the police failed to treat Harlemites fairly.
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