Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks About Black Lives Matter and Police Violence

A new book of essays by Mumia Abu Jamal sheds light on the historical roots of police violence. “The state will always utilize its ‘law" as a tool of repression, but movements must create and expand the space to raise contradictions.” Huey Newton, says Mumia, “called for deep transformation of police, to bring forth Citizen Peace Forces, designed to solve problems, not bomb them.” Body cameras and better training for cops “is a bourgeois mirage.”