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“Police containment of vice to black neighborhoods had other effects, as well. For one, it reinforced racist perceptions of black people as unfit for urban life.”
― Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

“depriving prisoners of sleep, banging rubber hoses across a suspect’s abdomen, placing a box over an individual’s head and filling it with tear gas, applying acid to genitals, hanging prisoners upside down by their ankles or beating them with poles to the point of eyeball dislocation and blindness”
― Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

“Carbon-fueled capitalism is a zombie system, voracious but sterile.”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

“In the face of the Depression’s ravages, Chicago criminalized human misery.”
― Simon Balto, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power