Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil

4 reviews

gogglor's review against another edition

informative

4.0

Informative and makes some great points

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Gun violence and Racial slurs

Nothing gratuitous, just the kind of content you’d expect in a work like this

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, and Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Sexual harassment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

random19379's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

webb_beb's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

The best non-fiction book I’ve read this year. Osterweil offers both a philosophical defense of looting (of course) as well as a critique of “non-violence” and it’s station in the American imaginary. She weaves these arguments into a thorough but engaging retelling of anti-Black violence in American history from the slave trade to the Ferguson uprising. Neither solely history nor philosophy the author’s deliberate personal presence transforms this into something of a manifesto- a construction of the past to serve as a guide for the present. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Racism