evidence: ALEXANDER: Unfortunately, at the very same time that the Civil Rights movement was gaining steam, crime rates were beginning to rise in this country. [...] MELINA ABDULLAH: Ferguson was not simply about Mike Brown. It was also this pattern of mass criminalization and mass incarceration. There was an average of three warrants per household in Ferguson. And so people rose up, because they understood that they were also enemies of the state, seen as enemies of the state. The communities in which black people live were really have become occupied territories, and black people have become seen as enemy combatants who don’t have any rights and can be stopped and frisked and arrested and detained and questioned and killed with impunity. [...] RENGEL: We may have lost the sheets of the Ku Klux Klan, but clearly when you see black kids being shot down, then obviously we didn’t cut out this cancer.