The tensions on Emory University’s campus remained high Friday as protesters returned the day after an intense clash between police and demonstrators who supported Palestine and Atlanta’s Stop Cop City
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Many anarchists hate cops because cops are part of “the state.” True enough, from one angle. But seen from another, it might be more useful to think of them as a political bloc with their own interests, maybe even a “class fraction” or a Weberian status-group. As Stuart Schrader has argued, this is especially true now, after several rounds of neoliberal “police reform” efforts that entrenched police identity and their sense of group interest through “professionalization” and the emergence of entrepreneurialized competition between municipalities for limited state funding. As they became more autonomous, police started looking less like agents of the state and more like a gang or racket.