In order to understand police brutality, we have to increase our holistic awareness and understanding of the systems that allow policy brutality to exist in the first place.  In other words, we cannot effectively understand modern-day police violence without understanding the deeply rooted racial history in our country. Like many institutionalized concepts, this is a tangled web that goes back to the arrival of the first African slaves in America in 1619 (and in all honesty, before that as well, but that is beyond the scope of this particular list of resources).  So in order to understand “police brutality” as…