Matthew D. Lassiter

Matthew D. Lassiter is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and director of the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab.

Police and the License to Kill

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Black people in response to the civil rights movement.

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