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1AC

The police officer stands at the dividing line, the border, bolstered by order barracks and law stations. The officer guards the separation between two worlds, one of the colonizer and the other of those who dwell on the fringes of the border. There is no need to mask domination because police violence is justified with the clear conscious of a law enforcer.

The police force is a tool manifested in colonial formations. The discursive regime created by colonial structures is woven into the language of modernity – it ties the history and purpose of the police to the subjugation of people based on the intensification of their differences. This type of rhetorical and ideological domination exposes the inability of postcolonial structures to disentangle themselves from their original formations.

Camille Casmier. 2015 10 June. "The Coloniality of Post-Colonial Police Violence". Pg 1-2. Northwestern English and Film Undergraduate.
In Ferguson, Missouri, a young black man is shot dead in the street
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obligation dissipates and the formation of a violent and militant police force begins.

The colonist continues to fabricate the colonized subject. They create a fiction built around a white male conception of humanity and citizenship. The rhetoric of modernity glorifies salvation to further a universal agenda of knowledge that forces marginalized groups to assimilate to western subject hood. The only way to dismantle the colonial underpinnings is by exposing the narrative. Changing law is pointless unless we change the ideology behind them.

Walter Mignolo, 2006. "Citizen Knowledge and the Limits of Humanity"
When the idea of "citizenship" came into view—and was linked to
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right, the left, and the center) took away from them. 

And the impact - westernization is scripted into the contemporary narrative and structures of coloniality present us with unending genocide. Radical abolition is our only option.

Rodriguez '8 ~2008, Dylan Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor at University of California Riverside, Abolition Now! p.93-94~
We are collectively witnessing, surviving, and working in a time of unprecedented state
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radically addresses the moral, cultural, and political premises of these wars. 

Thus, I affirm epistemic disobedience to limit the systems of immunity that uphold police power and rupture the normalization of the colonial matrix.

The 1AC enactment of epistemic disobedience ruptures coloniality by challenging the rhetoric of modernity and providing a counter-energy to combat it – we are a necessary criticism of hegemonic structures of knowledge that maintain the liberal promises of reform. We open up the possibility to build knowledge that supersedes Western ideology by creating cracks in academic spaces - spatial paradigmatic breaks of epistemic disobedience.

Walter Mignolo, 2011. "Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto" Transmodernity (Fall 2011). Pg 44-50.
But the basic formulation of decolonial delinking (e.g., desprendimiento) was
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then, is clear: the destruction of the coloniality of world power. 

The role of the ballot is to resist the colonial power knowledge matrices that lay the foundation of violence.

The only way to question the current colonial formation is to rupture the assumptions that maintain its legitimacy. We must enact an epistemic and linguistic intervention of the decolonial project to change the terms of the conversation.

Walter Mignolo. 2009. "Epistemic disobedience, independent thoughts and decolonial freedom."
The introduction of geo-historical and bio-graphical configurations in processes of knowing
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a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker.

Colonial violence is normalized in the classroom and educational spaces like debate – this makes institutions inaccessible to marginalized people and justifies continued violence in the name of progress. Debate is uniquely key to open up spaces that sever from western epistemologies and empower cultural and racial differences.

Sefa Dei and Stanley Doyle-Wood, 2007. "Knowledges and Multiple Knowings" The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology.
As Philip Corrigan (1990, p. 156) has rightly pointed out schools
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of the physical subjugation, language was the means of the spiritual subjugation."