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After Daunte Wright s Death, Minnesota Police Embrace Their Death-Dealing Power

Once Again, Police Rally Around Their Death-Dealing Power Daunte Wright was dead. Minnesota police raised a “thin blue line” flag, claiming their deadly force with a mark of pride. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Following a night of protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, after an officer shot and killed a young Black man, Daunte Wright, police raised a “thin blue line” flag, under the stars and stripes. Reporters stood there getting their live shots. A video of the scene was seen nearly two million times in one day. A century ago, the NAACP would hang a black flag out the window of their office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, with stark white letters visible for blocks away, reading plainly: “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.” It was a memorial, in the sense that it observed a death, and a marker interrupting daily life in the city in motion beneath it. In Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, their flag announced death, too. With the American flag, it flew at top mast. It claimed dead

A Haven for Radicals and Liberals Moves Closer to Landmark Status

A Haven for Radicals and Liberals Moves Closer to Landmark Status arrow The NAACP flew this flag outside its headquarters when it was at 70 5th Avenue Library of Congress and NAACP An early headquarters of the NAACP in Greenwich Village and home to numerous civil rights and activist groups moved one step closer to being landmarked. The 12-story Beaux Arts style building, located at 70 5th Avenue, was built in 1912 by architect Charles Alonzo Rich and almost immediately became, in the words of one chronicler, “a haven for radicals and liberals.” In addition to the NAACP, the building housed the National Civil Liberties Bureau, a group formed to assist conscientious objectors during the first World War before it changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union; the League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment; and the Citizen’s National Committee for Sacco-Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists who were sentenced to death after a h

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