Many police killings of unarmed black men are not to protect, but to punish and make an example

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5. The roots of the modern day police force lie in chasing Black people fleeing slavery, oppressing

immigrants and Labor organizers, and protecting private property; those roots are visible even today. And "make an example" is exactly right; they see those actions as their mission, and if someone threatens that mission -- by running away, by being too heavy to move or restrain quickly, by simply existing -- the example comes.