The Role of Women and Police Violence

June Jordan's Poem about Police Violence is an immersive radical pedagogy written during the 1960s. It was prompt by the brutal murder of Arthur Miller in 1978 who was restrained by 18 cops resulting in a chokehold that caused his death (WROB). The poem describes in detail how the police made the arrest and mention the language used during the encounter with Miller. The poem addresses the issue of assault at the hand of the police officers within an extended black community. Betts adds that poems like these show women's struggles and suffering as a result of such police brutality and how they reconsider the losses resulting from the slain subjects (1). She adds that they offer empowerment and catharsis to people experiencing them. In this regard, Jordan’s Poem about Police Violence brings out the inert silence and unsayable pain experienced by black women as a result of police brutality and the need for minimizing and stopping them in the country.