White America has a history of using euphemisms as code for things that make us emotionally uncomfortable, but not uncomfortable enough to take action. Under our current fascist government, it is getting harder and harder for white Americans NOT to talk about the atrocities of our authorian government, but we must unmask not only America’s secret police but also our own vocabulary, engineered to keep the powerful comfortable.  When we name this oppression as racial cleansing, people might better see the moral stakes for what they truly are and resist the normalization of these brutal acts.

Qualified immunity has been the major impediment to achieving meaningful accountability for,  and deterrence of, police brutality for decades. Read our explainer on the efforts to address it and what you can do.