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178K views · 1.1K reactions | Some of the first Southern police forces were created to control enslaved Black people. "The surveillance, the deputization, essentially, of all white men to be police officers — and then to dispense corporal punishment on the scene — are all baked in from the very beginning," says Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad. | NPR | Facebook