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When institutional violence is disguised as individual pathology

I'm Indigenous and my nephew died in police custody and they're calling it suicide but our family knows better and no one will listen to us.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

State violence against Indigenous bodies is being obscured through pathologizing narratives that deny systemic culpability.

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