"Power": Yance Ford on His New Film & Why "Violence Is Part and Parcel" of U.S. Policing

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The new Netflix documentary Power examines the role of police in the United States. We speak to its Oscar-nominated director, Yance Ford, about how policing is used to suppress dissent and protect property in the U.S., its relationship to imperialism and occupation, and the significance of the film's release ahead of the fourth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who was killed when police officers placed him in a deadly chokehold and who became a rallying point for protests against anti-Black racism and police brutality. "The thing that police want to do more than anything else is contain and control threats to order," says Ford. What we still see in the U.S. and around the world today, from the Black Lives Matter movement to the campus Gaza solidarity movement, is "the use of police as small militaries whose job is to suppress dissent."
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@levmoses742
@levmoses742 23 күн бұрын
Imagine just taking a 2 weeks of war funding and put it toward education, healthcare, rent control, accessible food subsidies, and mental health services as needed, for 5 years? We’d bring crime and improve life for everyone across the race and class spectrum. But what power structure wanted an educated healthy underclass?
@Estherbethe1...
@Estherbethe1... 23 күн бұрын
🎯💯🎯💯🎯
@manatee_flips6811
@manatee_flips6811 23 күн бұрын
do you pay taxes? Imagine not paying for the destruction of the world.
@kingmelanin7468
@kingmelanin7468 22 күн бұрын
Agreed! I appreciate this stream by Democracy Now because they can usually cover one topic at a time, be it race, economics, or policing without ever drawing conclusions between them all.
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
US defence spending is only 3.4% of GDP. Near an all time low of 3.3%. We already spend multiples of that on health & human services & education. You already got what you want.
@levmoses742
@levmoses742 22 күн бұрын
@@practicaliching2311You may have never worked in a school or lived off of a teachers salary as a single person. I’ve met many school teachers who can’t afford to live where they work. Many school computers are outdated, and why anyone would be learning out of a trailer in 2024 in the richest country 🤷🏻‍♂️ Your number is based on 2022. Military spending was at 3.5%, it’s now at closer to 5% including increase in pay for service people, with a request of a 2.+% increase as well. So many people going into financial debt over healthcare, and I don’t know how that compares to the increase of families living in cars and basically homeless since 2020. We could spend more on services. The good news this week was that one of the north eastern states gave a tiny tax increase to billionaires and millionaires which brought in some bacon and eggs for the state! We have plenty, we just have a distribution problem. Individuals making under 100k paying less taxes then multi billion $ corporations, doesn’t have to be.
@5funnyCats
@5funnyCats 24 күн бұрын
They really pointed a semiautomatic rifle at a child? Wtf is wrong with our country? Disgusting!
@ExploreXplore394
@ExploreXplore394 23 күн бұрын
The police is out of control.
@noboy345
@noboy345 23 күн бұрын
I think remember that being a wrong address the swat officers went too. And I'm not too sure but a baby was injured in a similar or the same incident. Where a flash bang was thrown into a baby room.
@1harrismccarty
@1harrismccarty 23 күн бұрын
They point guns at kids every day and demand you respect them for it.
@renewashington791
@renewashington791 23 күн бұрын
Right! And then the PO had the AUDACITY to tack on the word “Hun” as he Yelled and pointed his RIFLE at a frightened little girl 😢
@kroderbanshee
@kroderbanshee 23 күн бұрын
Blacks people been complaining about this
@sayvorie
@sayvorie 23 күн бұрын
The threat of violence is the primary tool of government.
@billhanna2148
@billhanna2148 23 күн бұрын
Yes we live in a fascist country disguised with a whisper thin veneer of "democracy" hollowed out by corporate greed and its welfare and never ours.
@Dan-Rather
@Dan-Rather 22 күн бұрын
You have equal ability for violence, ergo, no threat if you choose to protect yourself. You are choosing to be a victim
@billhanna2148
@billhanna2148 22 күн бұрын
@@Dan-Rather Categorically embiclic statement
@manuelbello5806
@manuelbello5806 24 күн бұрын
Hoping this gets an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Maybe even a win, maybe the Percy Jackson kids should present the category next year
@AlysonArchibequeDavis-kv1bx
@AlysonArchibequeDavis-kv1bx 23 күн бұрын
Right? It’s so important. So well done.
@manuelbello5806
@manuelbello5806 23 күн бұрын
@@AlysonArchibequeDavis-kv1bxdamn right
@PauloAdriano-zo2ng
@PauloAdriano-zo2ng 23 күн бұрын
Will that do much to change policing in America?
@larabraver
@larabraver 23 күн бұрын
Change usually comes about with small, consistent , persistent moves by people. This will add to the efforts. ​@@PauloAdriano-zo2ng
@shereerabon8551
@shereerabon8551 23 күн бұрын
Right- let’s strive to make people see this documentary. We can all benefit from the masses knowing what the massa would like to continue.
@madpatriot4608
@madpatriot4608 24 күн бұрын
The police wasn't established to serve and protect, only to uphold, corporate law
@benjaminfranklin8412
@benjaminfranklin8412 22 күн бұрын
That is what drug lords and murderers want you to believe
@kylesuperbaby9616
@kylesuperbaby9616 21 күн бұрын
Oligarchy
@kylesuperbaby9616
@kylesuperbaby9616 21 күн бұрын
@@benjaminfranklin8412The people you were talking about are running this country
@lacinabakayoko4634
@lacinabakayoko4634 17 күн бұрын
Slave patrol
@MWhaleK
@MWhaleK 6 күн бұрын
The police were created via partly via divide and conquer. In places like New York City Irish Cops were set upon the Irish and other poor or working-class people.
@norasalehbusiness9478
@norasalehbusiness9478 23 күн бұрын
Well done Mr. Yance
@kevinwilliams1768
@kevinwilliams1768 23 күн бұрын
wow excellent interview . This documentary is an eye opener, Blessings to Yance Ford for making it
@user-hm5gl6ll5n
@user-hm5gl6ll5n 23 күн бұрын
Thank you Democracy Now for bringing the world to me!!
@Kyle_McC
@Kyle_McC 23 күн бұрын
It’s police power that is unrivaled under the political system. The power just above the police allow this unregulated police power to remain.
@vladimirp9003
@vladimirp9003 23 күн бұрын
Between The Roman, Persian, Egyptian and now the American Empire I’d say this is the traditional norm. 1 race rises 1 race falls= the ideology we have now
@ivandejour9806
@ivandejour9806 23 күн бұрын
Very good segment to highlight what we’ve all known or all known and chose to ignore because it benefits you
@robertafierro5592
@robertafierro5592 23 күн бұрын
The Police Force began in the middle to.late 1800s in Lower Manhattan, in New York City. The men chosen for this new organization were some of the biggest and baddest bare knuckle street fighters in all.of the Five Points. The huge and hulking men were outitted with large clubs and trungeons. There was no money back then for uniforms yet, so they were issued warm woolen jackets with Copper buttons. No one messed with these guys. They were there to maintain order among the homeless beggars and theives. Remember that during this time period the Wild West was being tamed while London was searching for The Ripper! The South was getting ready to defend their way of life and as usual.our Black brothers and sisters were on the very bottom of the pecking order. One day a Draft Notice was nailed to a wooden fence by City Hall. Once read the bottom line was, if you had enough money, you could buy your way out of fighting in the Civil.War by hiring someone else to fight in your place. The common man went berzerk once the word got out. The Draft Riots became NYC History. The Police are supposed to.uphold the Law of the State. They are supposed to follow the Laws that everyone else follows. There should be no individual situations or worse, Cronyism. Everyone should be following the same Laws. Slowly, Mr Floyd was murdered in front of his own Community. No one should be AFRAID of the Police. The whole idea of that is just INSANE to me.
@beratnabodhi
@beratnabodhi 23 күн бұрын
Interesting that a veteran of the Spanish-American war in the Philippines who militarized that California police department, because it was another veteran of the S-A war in the Philippines, General Smedley Darlington Butler, who did the exact same thing with the Philadelphia police department.
@oghyeahoo6165
@oghyeahoo6165 23 күн бұрын
"Officer from overseer" "This is America"
@Socrates1944
@Socrates1944 23 күн бұрын
Ain’t that the Absolute Truth? Police are supposed to Serve and Protect, not Brutalize citizens!! Lord! Have mercy!!
@Dan-Rather
@Dan-Rather 22 күн бұрын
When the criminals treat society with brutality, how should we treat them?
@GinaRams
@GinaRams 22 күн бұрын
This is what i see when i look at the idf.
@omboogie1969
@omboogie1969 23 күн бұрын
This is profoundly brilliantly done necessary and historical. Thank you
@user-wm1nn2mu2b
@user-wm1nn2mu2b 23 күн бұрын
Watching it, quite good.
@Kelly19850302
@Kelly19850302 23 күн бұрын
Yeah, yeah yeah black Jesus is coming back anyway for his people and put us back on top forever and ever🖕🏾
@thorntonwilliams3851
@thorntonwilliams3851 23 күн бұрын
Dangerous delusion
@shereerabon8551
@shereerabon8551 23 күн бұрын
Amazing, enlightening and informative show today, as usual. Thanks for sharing this particular episode, today, however. Power!
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 23 күн бұрын
I Need To Watch This!!!💯💯💯🤔👈👈👈
@christopherbrown6891
@christopherbrown6891 24 күн бұрын
Fourteen Indiana police precincts have MRAPs.
@1848revolt
@1848revolt 23 күн бұрын
Sabotage.
@jo-annerichardson34
@jo-annerichardson34 23 күн бұрын
Fantastic interview. Needs to be seen. Thank you DN.
@herahagstoz6934
@herahagstoz6934 23 күн бұрын
“Anyone who moves” is potentially dead…. The fact that even small children understand the necessity to lay flat on the ground with their arms outstretched is a testament to the indiscriminate use of deadly force against anyone regardless of circumstance. The pointing of a military weapon at an elementary school child even though the officer is calling her “hon” as she gets up, that’s just insane.
@hope.8.
@hope.8. 21 күн бұрын
"He doesn't exactly have any other options for them" is the story of America- lack of options for the great majority. Which is why government needs to be given back to it's people.
@DoubleFool-xt4su
@DoubleFool-xt4su 23 күн бұрын
The truth always needed to be exposed for good of all humans.
@rlud304
@rlud304 23 күн бұрын
This is not about “all humans”🙄 This is an America problem only and is not the entire world
@user-hm5gl6ll5n
@user-hm5gl6ll5n 23 күн бұрын
But I don't understand why there were so few police to stop the protest which got into the senate.
@barefootincactus
@barefootincactus 23 күн бұрын
Puzzling
@rlud304
@rlud304 23 күн бұрын
“Protest?” That was no peaceful protest. That was an armed attack
@beefandbarley
@beefandbarley 15 күн бұрын
It wasn’t a protest, it was a white supremicist insurrection.
@ZeroGods4595
@ZeroGods4595 16 күн бұрын
Realism in action as long as the people are divided.
@dennismiller5725
@dennismiller5725 24 күн бұрын
Smedley Butler
@twylamiller6206
@twylamiller6206 23 күн бұрын
Largest well funded gang in the world.
@Heather-vg2tq
@Heather-vg2tq 23 күн бұрын
I hope it talks about cop city being built in Atlanta!
@simpletownworx
@simpletownworx 23 күн бұрын
Brilliant documentary. Thank you Yance
@simpletownworx
@simpletownworx 23 күн бұрын
5:24 my favourite segment
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 23 күн бұрын
💯💯💯👑🎯🎯🎯
@Muhdah1972
@Muhdah1972 23 күн бұрын
Already saved to my watch list as soon as Netflix aired the preview
@gochuckyourself-yf2rz
@gochuckyourself-yf2rz 21 күн бұрын
No we must get away and stay as far away as we possibly can .
@lesleedaniel7597
@lesleedaniel7597 19 күн бұрын
👍🏾 ✊🏽
@71suns
@71suns 23 күн бұрын
Let's say the quiet part out loud shall we? MALE VIOLENCE IS... Oh... that's right.. WE NEVER SAY THAT OUT LOUD DO WE? It's so 'normalized' we don't even have the capacity to say it even though its blatantly obvious.
@rlud304
@rlud304 23 күн бұрын
What are you blathering about? This is not just “male violence.” It’s American policing. This is an America problem. Turns out there are like these whole other ( actual civilized) countries that exist that are not ‘Murica😱. Must be shocking for you🙄
@craigbrowning9448
@craigbrowning9448 23 күн бұрын
A Guru of Modern American Policing is a guy named David Grossman who has his Wolf-Sheep-Sherp Dog complex view of civilians.
@user-ds6ov8jr5n
@user-ds6ov8jr5n 23 күн бұрын
NYPD response after Floyd killing jumped out at me. It shocked me.
@sergegainsbourgii1852
@sergegainsbourgii1852 20 күн бұрын
Wonder if the # of views on this gets suppressed?
@CatBell93
@CatBell93 24 күн бұрын
12:32 even with a note from massa, a Black man could be beat &/r kilt, under certain conditions 😢
@RAZR_Channel
@RAZR_Channel 23 күн бұрын
1:57 - He's pointing a Gun at a Little Girl....?? WTF..??
@Fatma-mx6cc
@Fatma-mx6cc 23 күн бұрын
That is damn shocking and uncalled for!
@RAZR_Channel
@RAZR_Channel 23 күн бұрын
@@Fatma-mx6cc Watch later on.. he cuffs her... 4-Real... she's like 4 ft high... 50 pounds max...
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 23 күн бұрын
3-Dimensions Of Israel!!!🪬🗿🗿🗿
@selalewis9189
@selalewis9189 23 күн бұрын
Y’all, if we’re not defunding the police, this is all theory.
@benjaminfranklin8412
@benjaminfranklin8412 22 күн бұрын
Some cities defunded the police and homicides, carjackings, and thefts went up.
@cotstu5683
@cotstu5683 12 күн бұрын
The solution is we need a “First or Alternative Non-violent Police Unit” to offer American citizens besides the typical everyday“psycho” Law Enforcement cops!
@gochuckyourself-yf2rz
@gochuckyourself-yf2rz 21 күн бұрын
Yeah that's because your supposed to comply at the moment that does not mean you're giving up your civil rights because you have the right to go to court and sue that police organization and ensure that your rights are protected so next time they stop someone who may just happen to be black they can know that they can be sued and they will be sued if they violate your constitutional rights which we have seen over and over and over again . But if you are a black criminal and you're committing a criminal offense the police have every right to stop you and detain you and question you it's called an investigation . Bean black does not give you extra civil rights it doesn't give you extra constitutional rights either .
@robertodell8900
@robertodell8900 23 күн бұрын
Also a history of Union busting.
@5funnyCats
@5funnyCats 24 күн бұрын
Well, looks like my subscription costs just went up by 20 bucks. Netflix has some great documentaries. I couldn't care less about movies or series, unless they're documentaries. I'm addicted to them. Ordered Max just to watch, The Jinx 2.
@Dienohmite
@Dienohmite 23 күн бұрын
Everytime I see anybody of colour I think of their fears daily and I’m not in their shoes, I cannot imagine how they must feel living in this disturbing and unjust reality
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
Yeah, same for the people that built cities like Newark, Baltimore and Detroit. All those families were ethnically cleansed out of those cities during the 1968 riots which were an extention of the 1804 genocide repeated on a larger scale but with less killing because of the police presence this time. Every time they see POC in their neighborhoods or return to the cities their family built, they are traumatized all over again.
@rohandamclaurin8568
@rohandamclaurin8568 21 күн бұрын
JESUS IS BLACK AND ALSO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER MARY❤❤❤❤❤
@Boomers4Zoomers
@Boomers4Zoomers 22 күн бұрын
From his lips to all ears.😢
@chuckrogers4917
@chuckrogers4917 23 күн бұрын
what does this have to do with Gaza?
@Fatma-mx6cc
@Fatma-mx6cc 23 күн бұрын
Our police forces in America are trained by Israeli forces!
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 23 күн бұрын
Where Do You Think Israel Gets Its Ideas From!!!💯💯💯🙀🙄🙄🙄
@BericD
@BericD 23 күн бұрын
IDF trains US cops to be the way they are.
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 23 күн бұрын
@@BericD Vise-Versa.
@rlud304
@rlud304 23 күн бұрын
No one needed your clueless opinion today🤦🏻‍♀️
@user-ml7tn4jn1m
@user-ml7tn4jn1m 22 күн бұрын
And some citizens in America thinks and believes this is a civilized society🤔😬🧐
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 21 күн бұрын
@@user-ml7tn4jn1m Only The Chosen Few Like Bidon And His Boss Net And Yahoo!!!
@meanderinoranges
@meanderinoranges 24 күн бұрын
George Kirby OD'd.
@1848revolt
@1848revolt 23 күн бұрын
Abolish power. Nect question.
@thosethatcan
@thosethatcan 23 күн бұрын
Twas top 5 IMHO docus
@jvjd2284
@jvjd2284 23 күн бұрын
1312
@gochuckyourself-yf2rz
@gochuckyourself-yf2rz 21 күн бұрын
Okay when was this little documentary made because police have conceded a whole bunch and they've been held accountable a whole bunch and there are innocent police officers in prison today because of criminals whose family members wouldn't be honest about their criminality and the police officer who was just doing their job went to jail for just doing their job . In criminals are not innocent little babies like they're portrayed with their baby pictures when they're trying to exonerate the criminal criminals are little babies little innocent babies their criminals doing criminal behavior .
@bobbydennis8333
@bobbydennis8333 23 күн бұрын
The US is done :( really is sad the people of this country decided to elect Trump after a human being like President Obama. President Obama is what America could have been. Trump represents what this country is. A global embarrassment.
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
Obama spent 8 years with his head under the hood, trying to figure out how to get the economic engine started again. Millennial were living in their parents basements. Notice as soon as Trump was elected companies started to hire again because people had hope for the future. Anyone can go into the IRS data and see that the 2017 tax cuts overwhelmingly helped lower income people.
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
"Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent. By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent. (For more detailed data, see my table published here.) That means most middle-income and working-class earners enjoyed a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more. What’s more, IRS data shows earners in higher income brackets contributed a bigger slice of the total income tax revenue pie following the passage of the tax reform law than they had in the previous year. In fact, every income bracket with filers earning $200,000 or more increased its tax burden in 2018 compared to 2017, and every income bracket with a top limit lower than $200,000 paid a smaller proportion of the total personal tax revenue collected. That means that Republicans’ tax reform law resulted in the tax code becoming slightly more progressive - the exact opposite of what Democrats have claimed over the past four years. The IRS data further shows that the tax reform law - which included a variety of business tax cuts, including a large reduction in the corporate income tax rate - spurred economic mobility. Every income bracket with a top level lower than $25,000 experienced a reduction in its number of filers, and every income bracket above $25,000 increased in size, with the biggest gains occurring in the brackets with a floor of at least $100,000. The fact is, Republicans’ 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households, and spurred economic growth that helped reduce poverty and improve prosperity."
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
Poindexter spent 8 years with his head under the hood, trying to figure out how to get the economic engine started again. Millennial were living in their parents' basements. Notice after the 2016 election, companies started to hire again because people had hope for the future. Anyone can go into the IRS data and see that the 2017 tax cuts overwhelmingly helped lower income people.
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
"Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent. By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent. (For more detailed data, see my table published here.) That means most middle-income and working-class earners enjoyed a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more. What’s more, IRS data shows earners in higher income brackets contributed a bigger slice of the total income tax revenue pie following the passage of the tax reform law than they had in the previous year. In fact, every income bracket with filers earning $200,000 or more increased its tax burden in 2018 compared to 2017, and every income bracket with a top limit lower than $200,000 paid a smaller proportion of the total personal tax revenue collected. That means that Republicans’ tax reform law resulted in the tax code becoming slightly more progressive - the exact opposite of what Democrats have claimed over the past four years. The IRS data further shows that the tax reform law - which included a variety of business tax cuts, including a large reduction in the corporate income tax rate - spurred economic mobility. Every income bracket with a top level lower than $25,000 experienced a reduction in its number of filers, and every income bracket above $25,000 increased in size, with the biggest gains occurring in the brackets with a floor of at least $100,000. The fact is, Republicans’ 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households, and spurred economic growth that helped reduce poverty and improve prosperity.
@practicaliching2311
@practicaliching2311 22 күн бұрын
"Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent.
@vforvendetta60
@vforvendetta60 15 күн бұрын
"..policing is related to racism, whiteness.." is just a poor way of going about this topic. Police brutality is the issue. I have lived in Africa and can attest that there is police brutality there. It mostly comes down to people drunk on power.
@Kk-iw4ck
@Kk-iw4ck 23 күн бұрын
Gay
@rohandamclaurin8568
@rohandamclaurin8568 21 күн бұрын
AMERIKKKA
@hayatraja7360
@hayatraja7360 23 күн бұрын
Disclose -Divest 🇵🇸
@makerstudios5456
@makerstudios5456 23 күн бұрын
How can police be tied to slavery if many of the states abolished slavery right after the revolution and many modern cites were founded after slavery was abolished nationwide?
@Muhdah1972
@Muhdah1972 23 күн бұрын
Re-watch the interview. FYI the abolishment of slavery made black people free by law but didn't guarantee white society wiuld respect or recognize that right. As proven by the establishment of Jim Crow soon after the end of slavery.
@todd77777772000
@todd77777772000 23 күн бұрын
Law enforcement uses informants to gangstalk me and many others. No one to turn to.
@kylesuperbaby9616
@kylesuperbaby9616 21 күн бұрын
Comply or else
@Tonsirton
@Tonsirton 23 күн бұрын
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