A childhood encounter showed police brutality was normalized

Evidence

Then, when I was around nine or ten years old, I left the house one day with my mother. I held her hand as we walked to the corner of 166th Street and waited for the light to change. A police car drove by, and as it passed I spotted a handcuffed black man in the backseat. Sitting beside him was a white officer, beating him. It was broad daylight. I turned in horror to confirm that my mother was seeing this, too. In a low, emotionless voice, she said, “That happens sometimes.” — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 11

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: High authoritarians received childhood training in obedience and fear of outsiders — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1014; Parents’ racist normalization and views often precede a son’s radicalization — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 310; State acknowledgment of carceral violence normalizes it rather than undoing it — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 817 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: High authoritarians received childhood training in obedience and fear of outsiders — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1014; Parents’ racist normalization and views often precede a son’s radicalization — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 310; State acknowledgment of carceral violence normalizes it rather than undoing it — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 817 (+1 more)