@ChrisJosiffe If we regard all police as agents of the diffuse state, then we must count the violent policing that happened in the county as state sanctioned in the widest sense, though they occurred I would argue, from local decisions and prejudices that the state felt it could support.
If we regard all police as agents of the diffuse state, then we must count the violent policing that happened in the county as state sanctioned in the widest sense, though they occurred I would argue, from local decisions and prejudices that the state felt it could support.
— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) October 5, 2019