Power | Official Trailer - Netflix - video Dailymotion

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Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.

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00:00 Police power is immediate power.

00:04 It's right now.

00:05 Do what I told you to do, right now.

00:08 Or else, I decide what happens next.

00:13 Policing is inextricably linked to the racial history of this country.

00:23 Police associated with colonizers, wealth and whiteness.

00:28 So police targeted people marked as non-white.

00:31 Slaves, indigenous and working class people.

00:35 Police have been able to double down on their power time and time again.

00:40 There are a lot of people that feel that policing is out of control.

00:44 But it's also the case that there's horrific crime and it also is out of control.

00:49 Policing is hard now. It's real hard.

00:57 We deal with a lot of murders.

00:59 In the United States, police power is essentially unregulated.

01:03 Anybody who moves to hold police accountable faces a challenge.

01:08 The biggest problem with policing today is that most of the harm that policing causes

01:13 is perfectly legal.

01:17 Get up hun, get up!

01:18 How did we get here?

01:34 The question breaks down as soon as you ask it.

01:38 We may share this country but is your America and my America the same place?

01:47 Has it ever been?

01:48 Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand."

01:53 And the power that is American policing hasn't conceded anything.

01:58 In this kind of democracy, who is more powerful?

02:02 The people or the police?

02:07 Police.

02:08 [Police siren]

02:11 [Police siren]

02:13 [Police siren]

02:16 [Gunshot]

02:17 [Gunshot]

02:18 [Gunshot]

02:19 [Silence]

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