SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Black Bloc, Militarization Of Police, No Reasons
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Black citizens are stopped more, searched more, carded more, and are more likely to view these encounters as illegitimate or unfair. Racial profiling can have emotional, physical, financial consequences. From g20 to occupy wall street to ferguson to baltimore. G20 the most massive compromise of civil liberties in canadian history . Look at how police handled the g20 meeting in 2010. Today we see more of a willingness to use coercive tactics. Focused on combination of local police and national level security agencies. In this particular case, we see anarchism and criminality. Threat amplification sense of threat is made up through intelligence analysis, and local police officers are trained to tackle this threat and minimize it. Anarchists possible threat for 2010 olympics and g20 meeting. Intelligence gathering helps officers indicate anarchism propensity towards violence, wearing black clothing and other stereotypical indicators. Officers got three hours of training, chemical/biological response, defense and front line tactics.
