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Pressley: Our Policing System Emerged from the Practice of Capturing Blacks Trying to Escape Slavery

‘The policing system in our nation grew out of the practice of capturing and murdering individuals trying to escape from slavery?’

EXCERPT:

PRESSLEY: “Mr. Crenshaw, is it fair to say that the policing system in our nation grew out of the practice of capturing and often murdering individuals trying to escape from slavery? Could you speak to just the history of our policing system and how you see that influencing modern-day police?”

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