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Racist Minneapolis Cop Pulls Gun on Black Woman Motorist for Having Legal Gun Permit

Despite Philando Castille, George Floyd & Daunte Wright, Modern Slave Patrollers Continue to Roll in Minneapolis

Herbert Dyer, Jr.
8 min readApr 30, 2022
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Author’s Note: This prologue was written just after Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson were murdered by killer-cops. Many, many more names have been added to this list since then.

Before Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson;

Before Tamir Rice;

Before Trayvon Martin;

Before Eric Garner;

Before Sandra Bland;

Before Rekia Boyd;

Before Laquan McDonald;

Before Alton Sterling;

Before Philando Castile; and

Before Mike Brown of Ferguson….

There was Rodney King.

Before cellphone, body, and dashboard cameras, police were rarely, if ever, caught in the act of brutalizing anyone. But it just so happened that in suburban L.A., on an ordinary early evening in March of 1991, the cops “pulled over” a black man

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Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Written by Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Freelancer since the earth first began cooling. My beat, justice: racial, social, political, economic and cultural. I’m on FB, Twitter, Link, hdyerjr@gmail.com.

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