Abstract
In both Europe and the United States, policing—as opposed to prisons—as an issue for abolitionists is a quite recent development (see Duran and Simon 2019). In the United States, its rise has been associated with activist groups like Black Lives Matter attempting to respond to decades of police violence against Black people—of which the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 was one example in a long line of incidents many of which are documented in this book. Rather than a general presentation of the case for police abolition Becoming Abolitionists is a powerful autobiography by a young Black woman growing up in St Louis, Missouri, becoming a radical lawyer and political activist in a world where police shootings and violence towards Black communities are part of everyday life. It is an absorbing account of how the author’s experience drove her political development from initially working...
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