Marc Lamont Hill Responds to Trump: "We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of a Problem of State Violence"
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Bump it!Marc Lamont Hill, journalist, distinguished professor of African American studies at Morehouse College, responds to calls by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to expand the controversial police tactic of stop-and-frisk in order to reduce crime. "We keep adding more hay to the stack ... more people to stop-and-frisk to find nothing," Hill says. He argues a range of factors have caused crime to go down already, and concludes: "We can’t arrest our way out of a problem of state violence."
Read more http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/26/trump_calls_for_more_stop_frisk
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