When Americans think of the civil rights movement, we may think of the bridge in Selma or the boycott in Montgomery or the march on Washington, but if we remember a single image, it is likely Birmingham, 1963: the protesters battered by the propulsive spray o…

It may be a pedantic distinction, but Davis tends to exclusively reach for the term police violence even when he is talking about, say, retaliatory prosecutions or judicial bias. U.S. courts and dist…