"Power": Yance Ford on His New Film & Why "Violence Is Part and Parcel" of U.S. Policing 

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do you pay taxes? Imagine not paying for the destruction of the world.

Agreed! I appreciate this stream by Democracy Now because they can usually cover one topic at a time, be it race, economics, or policing without ever drawing conclusions between them all.

US defence spending is only 3.4% of GDP. Near an all time low of 3.3%. We already spend multiples of that on health & human services & education. You already got what you want.

@@practicaliching2311You may have never worked in a school or lived off of a teachers salary as a single person. I’ve met many school teachers who can’t afford to live where they work. Many school computers are outdated, and why anyone would be learning out of a trailer in 2024 in the richest country 🤷🏻‍♂️ Your number is based on 2022. Military spending was at 3.5%, it’s now at closer to 5% including increase in pay for service people, with a request of a 2.+% increase as well. So many people going into financial debt over healthcare, and I don’t know how that compares to the increase of families living in cars and basically homeless since 2020. We could spend more on services. The good news this week was that one of the north eastern states gave a tiny tax increase to billionaires and millionaires which brought in some bacon and eggs for the state! We have plenty, we just have a distribution problem. Individuals making under 100k paying less taxes then multi billion $ corporations, doesn’t have to be.

Yes we live in a fascist country disguised with a whisper thin veneer of "democracy" hollowed out by corporate greed and its welfare and never ours.

You have equal ability for violence, ergo, no threat if you choose to protect yourself. You are choosing to be a victim

@@Dan-Rather Categorically embiclic statement

That is what drug lords and murderers want you to believe

Oligarchy

@@benjaminfranklin8412The people you were talking about are running this country

Slave patrol

The police were created via partly via divide and conquer. In places like New York City Irish Cops were set upon the Irish and other poor or working-class people.

The police is out of control.

I think remember that being a wrong address the swat officers went too. And I'm not too sure but a baby was injured in a similar or the same incident. Where a flash bang was thrown into a baby room.

They point guns at kids every day and demand you respect them for it.

Right! And then the PO had the AUDACITY to tack on the word “Hun” as he Yelled and pointed his RIFLE at a frightened little girl 😢

Blacks people been complaining about this

Right? It’s so important. So well done.

@@AlysonArchibequeDavis-kv1bxdamn right

Will that do much to change policing in America?

Change usually comes about with small, consistent , persistent moves by people. This will add to the efforts. ​@@PauloAdriano-zo2ng

Right- let’s strive to make people see this documentary. We can all benefit from the masses knowing what the massa would like to continue.

Puzzling

“Protest?” That was no peaceful protest. That was an armed attack

It wasn’t a protest, it was a white supremicist insurrection.

Sabotage.

When the criminals treat society with brutality, how should we treat them?

Dangerous delusion

This is not about “all humans”🙄 This is an America problem only and is not the entire world

5:24 my favourite segment

That is damn shocking and uncalled for!

@@Fatma-mx6cc Watch later on.. he cuffs her... 4-Real... she's like 4 ft high... 50 pounds max...

What are you blathering about? This is not just “male violence.” It’s American policing. This is an America problem. Turns out there are like these whole other ( actual civilized) countries that exist that are not ‘Murica😱. Must be shocking for you🙄

IDF trains US cops to be the way they are.

@@BericD Vise-Versa.

No one needed your clueless opinion today🤦🏻‍♀️

And some citizens in America thinks and believes this is a civilized society🤔😬🧐

@@user-ml7tn4jn1m Only The Chosen Few Like Bidon And His Boss Net And Yahoo!!!

Some cities defunded the police and homicides, carjackings, and thefts went up.

Our police forces in America are trained by Israeli forces!

Yeah, same for the people that built cities like Newark, Baltimore and Detroit. All those families were ethnically cleansed out of those cities during the 1968 riots which were an extention of the 1804 genocide repeated on a larger scale but with less killing because of the police presence this time. Every time they see POC in their neighborhoods or return to the cities their family built, they are traumatized all over again.

Obama spent 8 years with his head under the hood, trying to figure out how to get the economic engine started again. Millennial were living in their parents basements. Notice as soon as Trump was elected companies started to hire again because people had hope for the future. Anyone can go into the IRS data and see that the 2017 tax cuts overwhelmingly helped lower income people.

"Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent. By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent. (For more detailed data, see my table published here.) That means most middle-income and working-class earners enjoyed a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more. What’s more, IRS data shows earners in higher income brackets contributed a bigger slice of the total income tax revenue pie following the passage of the tax reform law than they had in the previous year. In fact, every income bracket with filers earning $200,000 or more increased its tax burden in 2018 compared to 2017, and every income bracket with a top limit lower than $200,000 paid a smaller proportion of the total personal tax revenue collected. That means that Republicans’ tax reform law resulted in the tax code becoming slightly more progressive - the exact opposite of what Democrats have claimed over the past four years. The IRS data further shows that the tax reform law - which included a variety of business tax cuts, including a large reduction in the corporate income tax rate - spurred economic mobility. Every income bracket with a top level lower than $25,000 experienced a reduction in its number of filers, and every income bracket above $25,000 increased in size, with the biggest gains occurring in the brackets with a floor of at least $100,000. The fact is, Republicans’ 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households, and spurred economic growth that helped reduce poverty and improve prosperity."

Poindexter spent 8 years with his head under the hood, trying to figure out how to get the economic engine started again. Millennial were living in their parents' basements. Notice after the 2016 election, companies started to hire again because people had hope for the future. Anyone can go into the IRS data and see that the 2017 tax cuts overwhelmingly helped lower income people.

"Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent. By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent. (For more detailed data, see my table published here.) That means most middle-income and working-class earners enjoyed a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more. What’s more, IRS data shows earners in higher income brackets contributed a bigger slice of the total income tax revenue pie following the passage of the tax reform law than they had in the previous year. In fact, every income bracket with filers earning $200,000 or more increased its tax burden in 2018 compared to 2017, and every income bracket with a top limit lower than $200,000 paid a smaller proportion of the total personal tax revenue collected. That means that Republicans’ tax reform law resulted in the tax code becoming slightly more progressive - the exact opposite of what Democrats have claimed over the past four years. The IRS data further shows that the tax reform law - which included a variety of business tax cuts, including a large reduction in the corporate income tax rate - spurred economic mobility. Every income bracket with a top level lower than $25,000 experienced a reduction in its number of filers, and every income bracket above $25,000 increased in size, with the biggest gains occurring in the brackets with a floor of at least $100,000. The fact is, Republicans’ 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households, and spurred economic growth that helped reduce poverty and improve prosperity.

"Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent.

Re-watch the interview. FYI the abolishment of slavery made black people free by law but didn't guarantee white society wiuld respect or recognize that right. As proven by the establishment of Jim Crow soon after the end of slavery.